This paper describes the latest version of the ABC metadata model. This model has been developed within the Harmony international digital library project to provide a common conce...
To fix the semantics of different kinds of parthood relations we require axioms which go beyond those characterizing partial orderings. I formulate such axioms and show their impl...
In a rational programming language, a program specifies a situation faced by an agent; evaluating the program amounts to computing what a rational agent would believe or do in the...
In this paper we address the problem of query answering and rewriting in global-as-view data integration systems, when key and inclusion dependencies are expressed on the global i...
Nowadays, the vast volume of collected digital data obliges us to employ processing methods like pattern recognition and data mining in order to reduce the complexity of data manag...
Ilaria Bartolini, Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania, ...