This technical note describes a monotone and continuous fixpoint operator to compute the answer sets of programs with aggregates. The fixpoint operator relies on the notion of aggregate solution. Under certain conditions, this operator behaves identically to the three-valued immediate consequence operator Φ P for aggregate programs, independently proposed in (Pelov 2004; Pelov et al. 2004). Thi...

Data warehouses usually store large amounts of information, representing an integration of base data from diierent data sources over a long time period. Aggregate views can be stored as a set of its horizontal fragments for the purposes of reducing warehouse query response time and maintenance cost. This paper proposes a scheme that eeciently maintains horizontally partitioned data warehouse vi...

Data warehouse views typically store large aggregate tables based on a subset of dimension attributes of the main data warehouse fact table. Aggregate views can be stored as 2n subviews of a data cube with n attributes. Methods have been proposed for selecting only some of the data cube views to materialize in order to speed up query response time, accommodate storage space constraint and reduc...

For rehabilitation of damaged concrete structures, the durability of repair overlay is a very important issue. Self-compacting concretes (SCC) are known as a suitable repair overlay materials. In this study, the durability of different self-compacting lightweight aggregate concretes (LWSCC) and effect of lightweight aggregate type on them is investigated. 3 mix designs of LWSCC containing three...

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have gained prominence for representing real-world facts, with queries of KGs being crucial their application. Aggregate queries, as one the most important parts KG (e.g., “ What is average price cars produced in Germany?”), can provide users valuable statistical insights. An efficient solution aggregate approximate semantic-aware sampling (AQS). This balances query time ...

This technical note describes a monotone and continuous xpoint operator to compute the answer sets of programs with aggregates. The xpoint operator relies on the notion of aggregate solution. Under certain conditions, this operator behaves identically to the three-valued immediate consequence operator aggr P for aggregate programs, independently proposed in (Pelov 2004; Pelov et al. 2004). This...

The preparation of daily energy budget of earth worm Lampito mauritii showed (i) decrease in consumption by about 66%, (ii) decrease of egestion 97%, (iii) decrease in growth by 80%, and (iv) enhancement in maintenance cost by about 31.5% on exposure to 8 ppm copper in comparison to zero level exposure. The stable aggregate formations also decreased by 67.6% at 8 ppm copper as compared to zero ...

In the Aggregate Production Planning (APP) the manager considers simultaneously conflicting objectives such as total cost, inventories level, workforce fluctuation, and utilization level of the physical facility and equipment. The goals associated with these objectives may be uncertain in nature. The aim of this paper is to develop a Goal Programming (GP) model where the goals and the right-han...

The medical-care sector often experiences changes in medical protocols and technologies that cause shifts in treatments. However, the commonly used medical-care price indexes reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics hold the mix of medical services fixed. In contrast, episode expenditure indexes, advocated by many health economists, track the full cost of disease treatment, even as treatments...

This technical note describes a monotone and continuous fixpoint operator to compute the answer sets of programs with aggregates. The fixpoint operator relies on the notion of aggregate solution. Under certain conditions, this operator behaves identically to the three-valued immediate consequence operator Φ P for aggregate programs, independently proposed in (Pelov 2004; Pelov et al. 2004). Thi...