This paper presents an approach to maintaining consistency of object versions in multiversion database systems. In this approach a multiversion database is considered to be a set ...
Reasoning about the correctness of program transformations requires a notion of program equivalence. We present an observational semantics for the concurrent lambda calculus with f...
We develop a notion of predicate transformer and, in particular, the weakest precondition, appropriate for quantum computation. We show that there is a Stone-type duality between ...
— As each of us perceives and conceptualizes the same world differently, imposing a single global schema for all users can seriously interfere with individual work and lead to er...
We study conjunctive query answering in the description logic EL, the core of the designated OWL2-EL profile of OWL2. In particular, we present an approach that allows the use of c...