Reasoning about the correctness of program transformations requires a notion of program equivalence. We present an observational semantics for the concurrent lambda calculus with f...
In this article we investigate a novel execution paradigm—ML-like pattern-matching— for XML query processing. We show that such a paradigm is well adapted for a common and freq...
The PolicyUpdater1 system is a fully-implemented access control system that provides policy evaluations as well as dynamic policy updates. These functions are achieved by the use o...
Abstract. We present a framework for a declarative approach to spatiotemporal reasoning on geographical data, based on the constraint logical language STACLP, which offers deducti...
Abstract. We describe a mechanism based on distributed Event-ConditionAction (ECA) rules that supports data coordination in a multidatabase setting. The proposed mechanism includes...