Using relation algebra, we generalize Aumann’s notion of a contact relation and that of a closure operation from powersets to general membership relations and their induced parti...
In pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing, many approaches are based on second order operators. Well-known examples are second order networks, the 3D structure...
operators. The analysis is abstract interpretation-based and is parameterized over two polyvariance operators and a projection operator. These operators are used to regulate the sp...
We consider IES(SQL), the incremental evaluation system over an SQL-like language with grouping, arithmetics, and aggregation. We show that every second order query is in IES(SQL) ...
We consider the navigational core of XPath, extended with two operators: the Kleene star for taking the transitive closure of path expressions, and a subtree relativisation operat...