We examine schema mappings from a type-theoretic perspective and aim to facilitate and formalize the reuse of mappings. Starting with the mapping language of Clio, we present a ty...
Abstract. We describe an approach for compiling dynamic preferences into logic programs under the answer set semantics. An ordered logic program is an extended logic program in whi...
Enterprise roles define the duties and responsibilities of the individuals which are assigned to them. This paper introduces a framework for the management of large distributed sy...
Abstract-- The dual notions of discernibility and indiscernibility play an important role in intelligent data analysis. While discernibility focuses on the differences, the indisce...
The Transferable Belief Model is a powerful interpretation of belief function theory where decision making is based on the pignistic transform. Smets has proposed a generalization ...