The availability of techniques for comparing descriptions has many applications in Artificial Intelligence, ranging from description selection to flexible matching, from instance...
Stefano Ferilli, Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Nic...
Knowledge representations using semantic web technologies often provide information which translates to explicit term and predicate taxonomies in relational learning. We show how t...
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...
Abstract. Suppose Alice and Bob are two entities (e.g. agents, organizations, etc.) that wish to negotiate a contract. A contract consists of several clauses, and each party has ce...
We propose a treatment of `extraposition' which allows items to be assimilated directly even when they appear far from their canonical positions. This treatment supports anal...