There are two main paradigms for querying semi structured data: regular path queries and XPath. The aim of this paper is to provide a synthesis between these two. This synthesis i...
We consider the navigational core of XPath, extended with two operators: the Kleene star for taking the transitive closure of path expressions, and a subtree relativisation operat...
Resolution refinements called w-resolution trees with lemmas (WRTL) and with input lemmas (WRTI) are introduced. Dag-like resolution is equivalent to both WRTL and WRTI when there...
Using the concept of discrete noiseless channels, it was shown by Shannon in A Mathematical Theory of Communication that the ultimate performance of an encoder for a constrained sy...
Linear Second-Order Unification and Context Unification are closely related problems. However, their equivalence was never formally proved. Context unification is a restriction of ...