In the proposed data model for XML databases, an XML element is directly represented as a ground (variable-free) XML expression—a generalization of an XML element by incorporatio...
Vilas Wuwongse, Kiyoshi Akama, Chutiporn Anutariya...
Matching dependencies (MDs) are used to declaratively specify the identification (or matching) of certain attribute values in pairs of database tuples when some similarity conditi...
Jaffer Gardezi, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Iluju Kiring...
Several computational problems in phylogenetic reconstruction can be formulated as restrictions of the following general problem: given a formula in conjunctive normal form where ...
Non-monotonic knowledge evolutions and exceptions constitute a complex theoritical and practical problem. The state of the art shows a rich and surprising diversity of approaches....
We introduce a novel spatial join operator, the ring-constrained join (RCJ). Given two sets P and Q of spatial points, the result of RCJ consists of pairs p, q (where p P, q Q) ...