The feature interaction problem is prominent in telephone service development. Through a number of case studies, we have discovered that no single semantic framework is suitable f...
J. Paul Gibson, Geoff Hamilton, Dominique Mé...
In this paper we consider the consistency problem of temporal or spatial qualitive constraint networks. A new encoding making it possible to represent and solve this problem in th...
We present a uniform relational framework for developing proof systems for theories of manyvaluedness that may have the form of a logical system, of a class of algebra or of an in...
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...
Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete informat...