Inherent constraints play an important role in the semantic Xplain model. These constraints enable us to represent certain real world knowledge once for subsequent use in several ...
The success of the Semantic Web depends both on the definition of ontologies used to represent the knowledge as on the annotations performed of the web contents. As manual approach...
We study strictly level-decreasing logic programs (sld-programs) as defined earlier by the present authors. It will be seen that sld-programs, unlike most other classes of logic p...
Abstract The most difficult and time consuming activity to perform during view integration is to find correspondences between different view specifications. Such correspondences...
Ernst Ellmer, Christian Huemer, Dieter Merkl, G&uu...
One of the objectives of ooDBMSs is to use type-speci c methods for manipulating objects, in order to maintain the consistency of the database. This is, however, little help for t...