Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...
There are two broad approaches to query evaluation over probabilistic databases: (1) Intensional Methods proceed by manipulating expressions over symbolic events associated with u...
Abstract. This paper presents a method which allows for merging beliefs expressed thanks to logic programming with stable model semantics. This method is based on the syntactic mer...
Type systems for secure information flow are useful for efficiently checking that programs have secure information flow. They are, however, conservative, so that they often rej...
Our ongoing work aims at defining an ontology-centered approach for building expertise models for the CommonKADS methodology. This approach (which is named "OntoKADS") i...