Query containment is a fundamental algorithmic problem in database query processing and optimization. Under set semantics, the query-containment problem for conjunctive queries ha...
This paper reports our first set of results on managing uncertainty in data integration. We posit that data-integration systems need to handle uncertainty at three levels, and do...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute user...
Boundeddegreenetworks like deBruijn graphsor wrapped butterfly networks are very important from VLSI implementation point of view as well as for applications where the computing n...
Modal logic represents knowledge that agents have about other agents' knowledge. Probabilistic modal logic further captures probabilistic beliefs about probabilistic beliefs....