Abstract. We consider the problem of query containment for conjunctive queries with the safe negation property. Some necessary conditions for this problem are given. A part of the ...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a fixpoint semantics for quantitative logic programming, which is able to both combine and correlate evidence from different sources of infor...
Complex distributed systems are increasingly important in modern computer science, yet many undergraduate curricula do not give students the opportunity to develop the skill sets ...
Joel Wein, Kirill Kourtchikov, Yan Cheng, Ron Guti...
A number of algorithms are available for computing the simulation relation on Kripke structures and on labelled transition systems representing concurrent systems. Among them, the...
Silvia Crafa, Francesco Ranzato, Francesco Tapparo
The current paper uses a scenario from logistics to show that modern heuristics, and in particular particle swarm optimization (PSO) can significantly add to the improvement of sta...