This paper examines the properties of metadata in the form of IF THEN rules which contain two predicates on attributes of a relational database table. For example: a(15 .. 30) d(2...
In 'Associative Caching' each client computer keeps a copy of its query result sets in its own local database. The purpose is to reduce the size and frequency of queries ...
We study the case where agents have preferences over ranges (intervals) of values, and we wish to elicit and aggregate these preferences. For example, consider a set of climatologi...
—This paper shows how to reduce evaluation time for context inference. Probabilistic Context Inference has proven to be a good representation of the physical reality with uncerta...
Korbinian Frank, Patrick Robertson, Sergio Fortes ...
Design Rule Checking (DRC) in VLSI design involves checking if a given VLSI layout satisfies a given set of rules, and reporting the violations if any. We propose data structures ...