We study extensions of first-order logic over the reals with different types of transitive-closure operators as query languages for constraint databases that can be described by...
We present a report on our participation in the English-Dutch bilingual task of the 2001 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We attempted to demonstrate that good cross languag...
We propose a new functional framework for modeling, querying and reasoning about OLAP databases. The framework represents data (data cubes and dimensional hierarchies) and queryin...
For some problems, human assistance is needed in addition to automated (algorithmic) computation. In sharp contrast to existing data management approaches, where human input is ei...
The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and ex...