Organisations may wish to use a standards-defined distributed system in a global sense but also have a requirement for non-standard local behaviour. This reflects the production...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
Abstract. Although much effort has been spent on suggesting and implementing new architectures of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), the evaluation and comparison of these has often been d...
Paul Davidsson, Stefan J. Johansson, Mikael Svahnb...
The structural rigidity property, a generalization of Laman’s theorem which characterizes rigid bar frameworks in 2D, is generally considered a good approximation of rigidity in...
This paper proposes a paraconsistent and nonmonotonic extension of description logic by planting a nonmonotonic mechanism called minimal inconsistency in paradoxical description lo...