Sciweavers

789 search results - page 53 / 158
» On Theory Revision with Queries
Sort
View
DLOG
2008
15 years 2 months ago
Taming the Infinite Chase: Query Answering under Expressive Relational Constraints
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
Andrea Calì, Georg Gottlob, Michael Kifer
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Preference elicitation for risky prospects
Minimax-regret preference elicitation allows intelligent decisions to be made on behalf of people facing risky choices. Standard gamble queries, a vital tool in this type of prefe...
Greg Hines, Kate Larson
DEXA
1997
Springer
137views Database» more  DEXA 1997»
15 years 4 months ago
A Retrieval Mechanism for Semi-Structured Photographic Collections
Abstract. In this paper, a new approach for retrieval from semistructured photographic collections is described. We have developed a retrieval model based on the Dempster-Shafer th...
Joemon M. Jose, David J. Harper
PPSWR
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Towards a Multi-calendar Temporal Type System for (Semantic) Web Query Languages
Abstract. Time is omnipresent on the (Semantic) Web. However, formalism like XML, XML Schema, RDF, OWL and (Semantic) Web query languages have, if any, only very limited notions of...
François Bry, Stephanie Spranger
DOLAP
2005
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Modeling, querying and reasoning about OLAP databases: a functional approach
We propose a new functional framework for modeling, querying and reasoning about OLAP databases. The framework represents data (data cubes and dimensional hierarchies) and queryin...
Ken Q. Pu