The formalism of nonmonotonic causal theories (Giunchiglia, Lee, Lifschitz, McCain, Turner, 2004) provides a general-purpose formalism for nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge repr...
Abstract. We introduce a framework, based on logic programming, for preferential reasoning with agents on the Semantic Web. Initially, we encode the knowledge of an agent as a logi...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
In-memory hash tables provide fast access to large numbers of strings, with less space overhead than sorted structures such as tries and binary trees. If chains are used for collis...
When integrating data from autonomous sources, exact matches of data items that represent the same real world object often fail due to a lack of common keys. Yet in many cases str...
Data fragmentation offers various attractive alternatives to organizing and managing data, and presents interesting characteristics that may be exploited for efficient processing...