In this paper we design a language and runtime support for isolation-only, multithreaded transactions (called tasks). Tasks allow isolation to be declared instead of having to be ...
Abstract. This paper presents a framework that integrates three aspects of agency: planning, for proactive behaviour, negotiation, for social behaviour and resource achievement, an...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Torroni, Neophytos Demetri...
—In this paper we propose the use of answer set programming (ASP) to model protein interaction networks. We argue that this declarative formalism rivals the popular boolean netwo...
Timur Fayruzov, Martine De Cock, Chris Cornelis, D...
There has been growing interest in the addition of update operations to languages that operate on XML data, for example, XQuery and XJ. These update operations support efficient an...
Physical design for object-oriented databases is still in its infancy. Implementation decisions often intrude into the conceptual design (such as inverse links and object decompos...