User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Abstract -- In this paper, we present a new mathematical framework in which disjunctive feature structures are defined as directed acyclic hypergraphs. Disjunction is defined in th...
d Abstract) Alexander Aiken Manuel F¨ahndrich Raph Levieny Computer Science Division University of California, Berkeleyz Static memory managementreplaces runtime garbage collecti...
A propositional system of modal logic is second-order if it contains quantifiers p and p, which, in the standard interpretation, are construed as ranging over sets of possible worl...
In this paper, we study the maintenance of role-based access control (RBAC) models in database environments using transitive closure relations. In particular, the algorithms that ...