The near ubiquity of mobile phones in the world and in people's lives, have created new opportunities for reinterpretation of what these devices are and what they do. One area...
Most modern database applications contain a significant amount of time dependent data and a substantial proportion of this data is now-relative, i.e. current now. While much resea...
This paper revolves around the so-called plan revision rules of the agent programming language 3APL. These rules can be viewed as a generalization of procedures. This generalizatio...
We introduce and develop the notion of symmetric monoidal sketch. Every symmetric monoidal sketch generates a generic model. If the sketch is commutative and single-sorted, the gen...
This panel introduces and explains the "future directions" and "broadening" discussions at the VLDB Endowment. Panelists are Michael Brodie, Stefano Ceri, Umes...