Abstract. Approximation has been identified as a potential way of reducing the complexity of logical reasoning. Here we explore approximation for speeding up instance retrieval in...
Abstract. The requirements for effective search and management of the WWW are stronger than ever. Currently Web documents are classified based on their content not taking into acco...
Maria Halkidi, Benjamin Nguyen, Iraklis Varlamis, ...
Without the proliferation of formal semantic annotations, the Semantic Web is certainly doomed to failure. In earlier work we presented a new paradigm to avoid this: the 'Sel...
A declarative programming language has two kinds of semantics. The tract helps in reasoning about speci cations and correctness, while an operational semantics determines the mann...
It is a fact that many XML query languages lack support for update operations. Those that have minimal support do not concern with preserving documents' constraints, and cons...