Information Systems Seminars

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Tuesday 25th November (week 7, Michaelmas Term 2008) Data-Exchange Beyond Weak-Acyclicity : From Termination to Tractability. Bruno Marnette (Oxford)

Tuesday 18th November (week 6, Michaelmas Term 2008) Tractable Probabilistic Description Logics Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford)

known 11th November (week 5, Michaelmas Term 2008) Ontological Reasoning and Knowledge Base Querying with Datalog+/- Georg Gottlob (Oxford)

Tuesday 4th November (week 4, Michaelmas Term 2008) Views and Queries: Determinacy and Rewriting Victor Vianu (UCSD)

Tuesday 28th October (week 3, Michaelmas Term 2008) Strategy Improvement for Parity Games: A combinatorial perspective Paul Hunter (Oxford)

Tuesday 21st October (week 2, Michaelmas Term 2008) Using OBDDs for Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases Dan Olteanu (Oxford)

Tuesday 5th June (week 7, Trinity Term 2008) On Datalog vs. LFP Stetphan Kreutzer (Oxford)

Tuesday 27th May (week , Trinity Term 2008) Structured Objects in OWL: Representation and Reasoning Bernardo Cuenca Grau

Tuesday 20th May (week 5, Trinity Term 2008) Ontology-based natural language understanding for question answering: Richard Montague meets Tom Gruber Philipp Cimiano (Karslruhe)

Tuesday 6th May (week 3, Trinity Term 2008) Reasoning for DLs with Inverses, Nominals, and Number Restrictions Rob Shearer (Oxford)

Tuesday 22nd April (week 1, Trinity Term 2008) Retrieving XML data from heterogeneous sources through vague querying Bettina Fazzinga (University of Calabria)

Tuesday 4th March (week 8, Hilary Term 2008) The class FDNC of Decidable Non-monotonic Logic programs with Function Symbols and their Application in Conjunctive Query Answering over Expressive Description Logics. Mantas Simkus and Magdalena Ortiz (TU Wien)

Tuesday 26th February (week 7, Hilary Term 2008) Rewriting Conjunctive Queries over Description Logic Knowledge Bases Hector Perez-Urbina (OUCL)

Tuesday 19th February (week 6, Hilary Term 2008) Querying Description Logics Knowledge Bases Birte Glimm (OUCL)

Tuesday 12th February (week 5, Hilary Term 2008) Modularity in Ontologies: From Theory to Practice and Back Bernardo Cuenca Grau (OUCL)

Tuesday 29th January (week 3, Hilary Term 2008) Optimising recursive data extraction from the Hidden Web Andrea Cali (OUCL)