: This paper formalizes UML class diagrams and structural patterns as mathematical objects and provides a precise notion of conformance of a structural model specified as a class d...
Abstract. Multi-context systems are a formalism to interlink decentralized and heterogeneous knowledge based systems (contexts), which interact via (possibly nonmonotonic) bridge r...
Motivated by the problem of querying and communicating bidders’ valuations in combinatorial auctions, we study how well different classes of set functions can be sketched. More...
Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru, Shahar Dobzinski, Hu Fu,...
Background: A growing demand for tools to assist the building and analysis of biological networks exists in systems biology. We argue that the use of a formal approach is relevant...
The query equivalence problem has been studied extensively for set-semantics and, more recently, for bag-set semantics. However, SQL queries often combine set and bag-set semantic...