A database stores data in order to provide the user with information. However, how a database may achieve this is not always clear. The main reason for this seems that we, who are in the database community, have not fully understood and therefore clearly defined the notion of “the information that data in a database carry”, in other words, “the information content of data”. As a result, databas...

Abstract. Consider n points X1, . . . ,Xn in R and denote their convex hull by Π. We prove a number of inclusion-exclusion identities for the system of convex hulls ΠI := conv(Xi : i ∈ I), where I ranges over all subsets of {1, . . . , n}. For instance, denoting by ck(X) the number of k-element subcollections of (X1, . . . ,Xn) whose convex hull contains a point X ∈ R, we prove that c1(X) − c2(...

The starting point of this paper is the introduction of a new measure of inclusion of fuzzy set A in fuzzy set B. Previously used inclusion measures take values in the interval [0,1]; the inclusion measure proposed here takes values in a Boolean lattice. In other words, inclusion is viewed as an Lfuzzy valued relation between fuzzy sets. This relation is reflexive, antisymmetric and transitive,...

The starting point of this paper is the introduction of a new measure of inclusion of fuzzy set A in fuzzy set B. Previously used inclusion measures take values in the interval [0,1]; the inclusion measure proposed here takes values in a Boolean lattice. In other words, inclusion is viewed as an Lfuzzy valued relation between fuzzy sets. This relation is reflexive, antisymmetric and transitive,...

Applying Zeilberger’s algorithm of creative telescoping to a family of certain very-well-poised hypergeometric series involving linear forms in Catalan’s constant with rational coefficients, we obtain a second-order difference equation for these forms and their coefficients. As a consequence we obtain a new way of fast calculation of Catalan’s constant as well as a new continued-fraction expans...