We formally characterize alternating fixed points of boolean equation systems as models of (propositional) normal logic programs. To this end, we introduce the notion of a preferr...
K. Narayan Kumar, C. R. Ramakrishnan, Scott A. Smo...
IPSec (Internet Security Protocol Suite) functions will be executed correctly only if its policies are correctly specified and configured. Manual IPSec policy configuration is inef...
Zhi Fu, Shyhtsun Felix Wu, He Huang, Kung Loh, Fen...
This paper describes the precise speci cation, design, analysis, implementation, and measurements of an e cient algorithm for solving regular tree grammar based constraints. The p...
Resolving heterogeneity among information systems is a crucial necessity if we wish to gain value from the many distributed resources available to us. Problems of heterogeneity in ...
Like people who casually assess similarity between spatial scenes in their routine activities, users of pictorial databases are often interested in retrieving scenes that are simil...