View mechanisms, widely used in the relational databases, pose new questions in the object model which captures much more semantics. In this paper, we will focus on inheritance and...
Video data management (VDM) is fast becoming one of seminar topics in multimedia information systems. In VDM systems, there exists an important need for novel techniques and mechan...
Probabilistic Logic Programming is an active field of research, with many proposals for languages, semantics and reasoning algorithms. One such proposal, Logic Programming with A...
Ontologies play a key role in agent communication and the emerging Semantic Web. Axioms are an important component of ontologies to describe the relationships among the concepts. ...
In this paper we consider supernormal defaults [Poo88] with a strict partial order defining their priorities [Bre91]. We investigate their relation to minimal or preferential ent...