XQuery is a powerful language defined by the W3C to query XML documents. Its query functionalities and its expressiveness satisfy the major needs of both the database community an...
Nicolas Travers, Tuyet-Tram Dang-Ngoc, Tianxiao Li...
Abstract-- We present the short-circuit code transformation technique, intended for embedded compilers. The transformation technique optimizes conditional blocks in high-level prog...
Spider diagrams are a visual notation for expressing logical statements. In this paper we identify a well known fragment of first order predicate logic, that we call ESD, equivalen...
Gem Stapleton, John Howse, John Taylor, Simon J. T...
Relational Database Systems often support activities like data warehousing, cleaning and integration. All these activities require performing some sort of data transformations. Si...
Large scale ontology applications require efficient and robust description logic (DL) reasoning services. Expressive DLs usually have very high worst case complexity while tractab...