Occasionally people may attempt to judge whether a question can be answered today, or if not, if it can be answered in the future. For example, a person may consider whether enough is known about the dangers of living close to a nuclear plant, or to a major electricity cable, for them to be willing to do so, and state-authorities may consider whether questions about the dangers of new technolog...

We consider answering queries where the underlying data is available only over limited interfaces which provide lookup access to the tuples matching a given binding, but possibly restricting the number of output tuples returned. Interfaces imposing such “result bounds” are common in accessing data via the web. Given a query over a set of relations as well as some integrity constraints that rela...

Abstract Ascribing autonomous status to agents is a valuable practice. As such, we ought care about how engage in practices of autonomy ascription. However, disagreement between first-personal experiences an agent's and third-personal determinations their presents challenges ethical epistemic concern. My view that insights from dialogical rather than nondialogical account give us the resources ...

The problem of cache answerability has traditionally been studied over conjunctive queries performed on top of a relational database system. However, with the proliferation of semistructured data and, in particular, of XML as the de facto standard for information interchange on the Internet, most of the assumptions and methods used for traditional systems – and cache answerability is no excepti...

Recent educational reforms in Norway include national tests and monitoring mechanisms to see if key outcomes are being achieved. At the same time, Norway has not established the follow-up mechanisms like high-stakes incentives and rewards that are characteristic of accountability policies in some other countries. As a consequence, one could argue that Norway has only moved ‘‘half-way’’ toward a...