Abstract. Nonmonotonic causal logic became a basis for the semantics of several expressive action languages. Norman McCain and Paolo Ferraris showed how to embed propositional caus...
This demonstration presents Cloudy, a modular cloud storage system. Cloudy provides a highly flexible architecture for distributed data storage and is designed to operate with mu...
Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Simon Loesing, Stepha...
Metaphors pervade our language because they are elastic enough to allow a speaker to express an affective viewpoint on a topic without committing to a specific meaning. This balan...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
We investigate and compare two forms of recursion on sets for querying nested collections. The rst one is called sri and it corresponds to sequential processing of data. The second...