We introduce a novel logical notion–partial entailment–to propositional logic. In contrast with classical entailment, that a formula P partially entails another formula Q with...
Recently well-quasi orders in general, and homeomorphic embedding in particular, have gained popularity to ensure the termination of program analysis, specialisation and transform...
Clustering on multi-type relational data has attracted more and more attention in recent years due to its high impact on various important applications, such as Web mining, e-comm...
Bo Long, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Xiaoyun Wu, Philip...
We describe a two-level client-side cache for composite objects mapped as views of a relational database. A semantic model, the Structural Model, is used to specify joins on the r...
The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...