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FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Consistency Checking Algorithms for Restricted UML Class Diagrams
Abstract. Automatic debugging of UML class diagrams helps in the visual specification of software systems because users cannot detect errors in logical inconsistency easily. This p...
Ken Kaneiwa, Ken Satoh
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Reasoning Support for Expressive Ontology Languages Using a Theorem Prover
It is claimed in [45] that first-order theorem provers are not efficient for reasoning with ontologies based on description logics compared to specialised description logic reasone...
Ian Horrocks, Andrei Voronkov
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Guarded Open Answer Set Programming with Generalized Literals
Abstract. We extend the open answer set semantics for programs with generalized literals. Such extended programs (EPs) have interesting properties, e.g. the ability to express infi...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Nested List Normal Form for Functional and Multivalued Dependencies
The Nested List Normal Form is proposed as a syntactic normal form for semantically well-designed database schemata obtained from any arbitrary finite nesting of records and lists....
Sven Hartmann, Sebastian Link
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Iterative Modification and Incremental Evaluation of Preference Queries
Abstract. We present here a formal foundation for an iterative and incremental approach to constructing and evaluating preference queries. Our main focus is on query modification: ...
Jan Chomicki
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Semijoin Algebra
Jan Van den Bussche
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Modeling the Evolution of Objects in Temporal Information Systems
This paper presents a semantic foundation of temporal conceptual models used to design temporal information systems. We consider a modeling language able to express both timestampi...
Alessandro Artale, Christine Parent, Stefano Spacc...
FOIKS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Equational Constraint Solving Via a Restricted Form of Universal Quantification
Abstract. In this paper, we present a syntactic method for solving firstorder equational constraints over term algebras. The presented method exploits a novel notion of quasi-solve...
Javier Álvez, Paqui Lucio