In this paper we discuss the question which properties of a formally verified component are preserved when the component is changed due to an adaption to a new use. More specific...
We present here a formal foundation for an iterative and incremental approach to constructing and evaluating preference queries. Our main focus is query modification: a query tran...
Abstract. In dynamic environments like the Web, data sources may change not only their data but also their schemas, their semantics, and their query capabilities.When a mapping is ...
A class of relational structures is said to have the extension preservation property if every first-order sentence that is preserved under extensions on the class is equivalent t...
We consider the problem of updating nonmonotonic knowledge bases represented by epistemic logic programs where disjunctive information and notions of knowledge and beliefs can be ...