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LPNMR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Complexity of the Stable Model Semantics for Queries on Incomplete Databases
Abstract. We study the complexity of consistency checking and query answering on incomplete databases for languages ranging from non-recursive Datalog to disjunctive Datalog with n...
Jos de Bruijn, Stijn Heymans
ICSNW
2004
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Knowledge Sifter: Agent-Based Ontology-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Databases Using Semantic Web Services
Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...
EJC
2003
13 years 11 months ago
A Theory of Signs for Database Semantics
The goal of this paper is to build a bridge from a certain intuitive conception of natural language communication, called the SLIM theory of language, to a technical approach, cal...
Roland Hausser
SRDS
1995
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Supporting Semantics-Based Transaction Processing in Mobile Database Applications
Advances in computer and telecommunication technologies have made mobile computing a reality. However, greater mobility implies a more tenuous network connection and a higher rate...
Gary D. Walborn, Panos K. Chrysanthis
SEBD
2007
113views Database» more  SEBD 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Conditional Preferences: A New Semantics for Database Queries
Preference queries aim to retrieve from large databases those objects that better match user’s requirements. Approaches proposed so far in the DB field for specifying preference...
Paolo Ciaccia