Abstract. In the paper two notions related to local (distributed) computations are identified and discussed. The first one is the notion of reducible graphs. A graph is reducible...
Entity matching (a.k.a. record linkage) plays a crucial role in integrating multiple data sources, and numerous matching solutions have been developed. However, the solutions have...
Warren Shen, Pedro DeRose, Long Vu, AnHai Doan, Ra...
This article presents a general framework for integrating reasoning about object structure and concept taxonomies. The structural relations in the domain of objects discussed are ...
Qualitative temporal and spatial reasoning is in many cases based on binary relations such as before, after, starts, contains, contact, part of, and others derived from these by r...
Standard theories in mereotopology focus on relations of parthood and connection among spatial or spatio-temporal regions. Objects or processes which might be located in such regio...