简介:Asystematic,efficientcompilationmethodforqueryevaluationofDeductiveDatabases(DeDB)isproposedinthispaper.Inordertoeliminateredundancyandtominimizethepotentiallyrelevantfacts,whicharetwokeyissuestotheefficiencyofaDeDB,thecompilationprocessisdecomposedintotwophases.Thefirstisthepre-compilationphase,whichisresponsiblefortheminimizationofthepotentiallyrelevantfacts.Thesecond,whichwerefertoasthegeneralcompilationphase,isresponsiblefortheeliminationofredundancy.Therule/goalgraphdevisedbyJ.D.Ullmanisappropriatelyextendedandusedasauniformformalism.Twogeneralalgorithmscorrespondingtothetwophasesrespectivelyaredescribedintuitivelyandformally.
简介:Aconceptualleveldatabaselanguagefortheentityrelationship(ER)modelimplicitlycontainsintegritiesbasictoERconceptsandspecialretrievalsemanticsforinheritancesofattributesandrelationships.Prolog,whichbelongstothelogicalandphysicallevel,cannotbeusedasafoundationtodirectlydefinethedatabaselanguage.ItisshownhowPrologcanbeenhancedtounderstandtheconceptsofentities,relationships,attributesandis-arelationships.TheenhancedPrologisthenusedasafoundationtodefinethesemanticsofadatabasequerylanguagefortheERmodel.Thethreebasicfunctionsofmodelspecification,updatesandretrievalsaredefined.
简介:Theconstructionofoceanographicontologiesisfundamentaltothe'digitalocean'.Therefore,onthebasisofintroductionofnewconceptofoceanographicontology,anoceanographicontology-basedspatialknowledgequery(OOBSKQ)methodwasproposedanddeveloped.Becausethemethodusesanaturallanguagetodescribequeryconditionsandthequeryresultishighlyintegratedknowledge,itcanprovideuserswithdirectanswerswhilehidingthecomplicatedcomputationandreasoningprocesses,andachievesintelligent,automaticoceanographicspatialinformationqueryonthelevelofknowledgeandsemantics.Acasestudyofresourceandenvironmentalapplicationinbayhasshowntheimplementationprocessofthemethodanditsfeasibilityandusefulness.
简介:Approximatequeryprocessinghasemergedasanapproachtodealingwiththehugedatavolumeandcomplexqueriesintheenvironmentofdatawarehouse.Inthispaper,wepresentanovelmethodthatprovidesapproximateanswerstoOLAPqueries.Ourmethodisbasedonbuildingacompressed(approximate)datacubebyaclusteringtechniqueandusingthiscompresseddatacubetoprovideanswerstoqueriesdirectly,soitimprovestheperformanceofthequeries.WealsoprovidethealgorithmoftheOLAPqueriesandtheconfidenceintervalsofqueryresults.AnextensiveexperimentalstudywiththeOLAPcouncilbenchmarkshowstheeffectivenessandscalabilityofourcluster-basedapproachcomparedtosampling.
简介:Inmanyapplicationsanddomains,temporalconstraintsbetweenactions,andtheirprobabilitiesplayanimportantrole.Weproposethefirstapproachintheliteraturecopingwithprobabilisticquantitativeconstraints.Toachievesuchachallenginggoal,weextendthewidelyusedsimpletemporalproblem(STP)frameworktoconsiderprobabilities.Specifically,weproposei)aformalrepresentationofprobabilisticquantitativeconstraints,ii)analgorithm,basedontheoperationsofintersectionandcomposition,forthepropagationofsuchtemporalconstraints,andiii)facilitiestosupportqueryansweringonasetofsuchconstraints.Asaresult,weprovideuserswiththefirsthomogeneousmethodsupportingthetreatment(representing,reasoning,andquerying)ofprobabilisticquantitativeconstraints,asrequiredbymanyapplicationsanddomains.
简介:ThePowerSystemDepartment(PSD)isthelargestpro-fessionalresearchanddevelopmentorganizationoncomprehensivepowersystemplanning,engineeringandoperationoftheElectricPowerResearchInstitute(EPRI)oftheMinistryofEnergy.TheactiveRD&EofPSDarecomposedofthefollowingfivemajorareas.Powersystemanalysis,softwaredevelopment&application,automaticdevices,DCtransmission,generation&transmissioncommission,modernlaboratoriesforRD&Eandelectricalappara-
简介:Withthedevelopmentofcleanenergy,switchinganddistributionissuesinaphotovoltaicsystemaregettingmuchattentioninrecentyears.ThispaperdesignsaDCtoACinverterandpowerswitchinganddistributionsystembetweenasolarpowersystemandthemunicipalsystembyusingtheDarlingtonamplifierstructurewiththephotosensitiveresistorandaccompanyingrelays,anddetailsthesystemcircuits.Theproposedsystemcanachieveastableoutputof110VAC,aswellasself-generatingdrivingvoltageandswitchingbetweenthemunicipalelectricalsystemandthesolarpowersystem.Themathematicanalysisandactuallytestresultsdemonstratethattheproposedmethodisaneasy,inexpensive,andlowcostwaytobuildasolarpowerswitchinganddistributionsystem.