In massively collaborative projects such as scientific or community databases, users often need to agree or disagree on the content of individual data items. On the other hand, tr...
ally related entity types, or classes, into higher level, more abstract types, as part of a hierarchical classi®cation scheme. graphy, generalization retains the notion of abstrac...
Context-awareness is starting to emerge as a key driving principle for the design and provisioning of pervasive services in pervasive computing environments. Semantic languages se...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
We propose an extension of functional logic languages that allows the definition of operations with patterns containing other defined operation symbols. Such “function patterns...