This paper introduces the Ariadne Corpus Management System. First, the underlying data model is presented which enables users to represent and process heterogeneous data sets with...
Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...
Many real world applications such as sensor networks and other monitoring applications naturally generate probabilistic streams that are highly correlated in both time and space. ...
The integration of database and programming languages is made difficult by the different data models and type systems prevalent in each field. Functional-object query languages con...
In this paper, we study a simple SQL extension that enables query writers to explicitly limit the cardinality of a query result. We examine its impact on the query optimization an...