Abstract. We explore the expressive power of the formalism called Natural Operational Semantics, NOS, introduced by Burstall and Honsell for defining the operational semantics of ...
Although scientific data analysis increasingly requires accessandmanipulation of large quantitiesof data,current databasetechnology fails to meet the needsof scientific processing...
Expert database systems extend the functionality of conventional database systems by providing a facility for creating and automatically executing Condition-Action rules. While Con...
Collection-oriented languages provide high-level constructs for describing computations over collections. These languages are becoming increasingly popular with the advent of massi...
The HiPAC project is investigating active, time-constrained databasemanagment. An active DBMS is one which automatically executes specified actions when speciifed conditions arise...