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AGP
1994
IEEE
14 years 7 days ago
What the Event Calculus actually does, and how to do it efficiently
Kowalski and Sergot's Event Calculus (EC) is a formalism for reasoning about time and change in a logic programming framework. From a description of events which occur in the...
Iliano Cervesato, Luca Chittaro, Angelo Montanari
ICDE
1993
IEEE
118views Database» more  ICDE 1993»
14 years 7 days ago
Entity Identification in Database Integration
The objective of entity identification is to determine the correspondence between object instances from more than one database. This paper ezamines the problem at the instance lev...
Ee-Peng Lim, Jaideep Srivastava, Satya Prabhakar, ...
CCS
1994
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
The Design and Implementation of Tripwire: A File System Integrity Checker
At the heart of most computer systems is a file system. The file system contains user data, executable programs, configuration and authorization information, and (usually) the bas...
Gene H. Kim, Eugene H. Spafford
ECAI
1992
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
A Strategy for the Computation of Conditional Answers
We consider non-Horn Deductive Data Bases (DDB) represented in a First Order language without function symbols. In this context the DDB is an incomplete description of the world. ...
Robert Demolombe
ICDT
1990
ACM
110views Database» more  ICDT 1990»
14 years 4 days ago
Beginnings of a Theory of General Database Completions
Ordinary logical implication is not enough for answering queries in a logic database, since especially negative information is only implicitly represented in the database state. M...
Stefan Brass