There have been many recent research efforts on temporal databases for managing current and historical data and on active databases for monitoring real-world events as well as dat...
The enforcement of semantic integrity constraints in data and knowledge bases constitutea a major performance bottleneck. Integrity constraint simplification methods aim at reduci...
The Rete and Treat algorithms are considered the most efficient implementation techniques for Forward Chaining rule systems. These algorithms support a language of limited express...
This paper presents results from an ongoing effort in applying a variety of induction-based methods to the problem of predicting the biological activity of noncongeneric (structu...
Stevens, Myers, and Constantine introduced the notion of cohesion, an ordinal scale of seven levels that describes the degree to which the actions performed by a module contribute...