Probabilistic Decision Graphs (PDGs) are a class of graphical models that can naturally encode some context specific independencies that cannot always be efficiently captured by...
A recurrent question in the design of intelligent agents is how to assign degrees of beliefs, or subjective probabilities, to various events in a relational environment. In the sta...
Materialized views (MV) can significantly improve the query performance of relational databases. In this paper, we consider MVs to optimize complex scenarios where many heterogen...
Leonardo Weiss Ferreira Chaves, Erik Buchmann, Fab...
In this paper we investigate updates of knowledge bases represented by logic programs. In order to represent negative information, we use generalized logic programs which allow de...
Abstract. The interest in the area of non-monotonic reasoning and declarative logic programming is growing rapidly after the recent development of a number of Answer Set Programmin...