Preferences and uncertainty occur in many real-life problems. The theory of possibility is one way of dealing with uncertainty, which allows for easy integration with fuzzy prefer...
Many real-life constraints describing relations between the problem variables have complex semantics and the constraint domain is defined using a table of compatible tuples rather ...
Abstract. Database integrity constraints, understood as logical conditions that must hold for any database state, are not fully supported by current database technology. It is typi...
This paper presents SPEX, a streamed and progressive evaluation of regular path expressions with XPath-like qualifiers against XML streams. SPEX proceeds as follows. An expression...
Relational schema mappings have been extensively studied in connection with data integration and exchange problems, but mappings between XML schemas have not received the same amo...