Microsoft SQL Server was successful for many years for transaction processing and decision support workloads with neither merge join nor hash join, relying entirely on nested loop...
This paper studies a logical framework for automated negotiation between two agents. We suppose an agent who has a knowledge base represented by a logic program. Then, we introduc...
The Web is moving to a new generation in which machine-understandable processing is mandatory. In order to achieve this goal it is essential to define ontologies which enable the ...
Cartography is one of the major application areas using geographical databases. Whether it is for the business of producing paper maps for sale, or whether it is for displaying map...
In this paper we introduce a prototype job portal which uses semantically annotated job offers and applicants. In our opinion, using Semantic Web technologies substantially increa...
Malgorzata Mochol, Holger Wache, Lyndon J. B. Nixo...