Human Genome Project databases present a confluence of interesting database challenges: rapid schema and data evolution, complex data entry and constraint management, and the need...
Susan B. Davidson, Anthony Kosky, Barbara A. Eckma...
Even though it is not very often admitted, partial functions do play a significant role in many practical applications of deduction systems. Kleene has already given a semantic acc...
We give a notation and a logical calculus for the description and deductive manipulation of dynamic networks of communicating components. We represent such nets by hierarchical sys...
As software systems become more complex the overall system structure { or software architecture { becomes a central design problem. An important step towards an engineering discip...
The paper presentsa method for terminological reasoningabout spatial objects on the basis of a KL-ONE-like framework (LOOM). We apply this method to the domain of deductive geograp...