Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems

Low Discrepancy Allocation of Two-Dimensional Data.- A Family of Nested Query Languages for Semi-structured Data.- Decomposition of Database Classes under Path Functional Dependencies and Onto Constraints.- Imprecision and User Preferences in Multimedia Queries: A Generic Algebraic Approach.- Maximal Expansions of Database Updates.- Error-Correcting Keys in Relational Databases.- Extension of the Relational Algebra to Probabilistic Complex Values.- Persistent Turing Machines as a Model of Interactive Computation.- On Interactions of Cardinality Constraints, Key, and Functional Dependencies.- Capturing LOGSPACE over Hereditarily-Finite Sets.- Non-situation Calculus and Database Systems.- Dealing with Modification Requests During View Updating and Integrity Constraint Maintenance.- Making Decision Trees More Accurate by Losing Information.- High-Level Logic Programming.- Clausal Deductive Databases and a General Framework for Semantics in Disjunctive Deductive Databases.- Partial Evaluations in a Set-Theoretic Query Language for the WWW.- Minimum Matrix Representation of Some Key System.- Reflective Relational Machines Working on Homogeneous Databases.