Abstract. Ontologies are pervading many areas of knowledge representation and management. To date, most research efforts have been spent on the development of sufficiently express...
Deductive conceptualmodels(DCMs) aim at providing a complete specification of information systems,expressing only its logic component.It hasbeenshownthatDCMs have some advantagesw...
—Developing powerful paradigms for programming sensor networks is critical to realize the full potential of sensor networks as collaborative data processing engines. In this arti...
Logic and databases have gone a long way together since the advent of relational databases. Already the rst basic query languages for relational databases beside relational algebra...
Abstract. The increased availability of biological databases containing representations of complex objects permits access to vast amounts of data. In spite of the recent renewed in...