Abstract. In this short paper we describe the DFL hybrid knowledge base, that integrates descriptions with expressive object-oriented rules. The knowledge base manages a database o...
The paper presents a simple and concise proof of correctness of the magic transformation. We believe it may provide a useful example of formal reasoning about logic programs. The ...
Recent excitement in the database community surrounding new applications--analytic, scientific, graph, geospatial, etc.--has led to an explosion in research on database storage sy...
Jade is a language designed to support coarse-grain parallelism on both shared and distributed addressspace machines. Jade is data-oriented: a Jade programmer simply augments a se...
The aim of this paper is to introduce a modelling concept and structuring principle for rule-based systems the semantics of which is not restricted to a sequential behavior, but ca...