When a query is evaluated under bag semantics, each answer is returned as many times as it has derivations. Bag semantics has long been recognized as important, especially when ag...
A declarative programming language has two kinds of semantics. The tract helps in reasoning about speci cations and correctness, while an operational semantics determines the mann...
d Abstract Kirack Sohn and Allen Van Gelder University of California, Santa Cruz Progress on automated termination detection for logic programs is reported. The prospects for han...
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...
New demandsare put on query processing in Object-Oriented(00) databasesto provide efficient andrelationally completequery languages. A flexible 00 data model requires overloading ...