We study xpoints of operators on lattices. To this end we introduce the notion of an approximation of an operator. We order approximations by means of a precision ordering. We sho...
Marc Denecker, V. Wiktor Marek, Miroslaw Truszczyn...
Query containment is a fundamental algorithmic problem in database query processing and optimization. Under set semantics, the query-containment problem for conjunctive queries ha...
In this article a formal model applying REST architectural principles to the description of semantic web services is introduced, including the discussion of its syntax and operati...
We define a program semantics that is preserved by dependence-based slicing algorithms. It is a natural extension, to non-terminating programs, of the semantics introduced by Wei...
Richard W. Barraclough, David Binkley, Sebastian D...
Interpreting news requires identifying its constituent events. Events are complex linguistically and ontologically, so disambiguating their reference is challenging. We introduce ...
Joel Nothman, Matthew Honnibal, Ben Hachey, James ...