OWL 2 RL was standardized as a less expressive but scalable subset of OWL 2 that allows a forward-chaining implementation. However, building an enterprise-scale forward-chaining ba...
A number of organizations publish microdata for purposes such as public health and demographic research. Although attributes that clearly identify individuals, such as Name and So...
Kristen LeFevre, David J. DeWitt, Raghu Ramakrishn...
Variable-Length Encoding (VLE) is a process of reducing input data size by replacing fixed-length data words with codewords of shorter length. As VLE is one of the main building bl...
We present an approach to dealing with skew in parallel joins in database systems. Our approach is easily implementable within current parallel DBMS, and performs well on skewed d...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. S...
In recent years, the management and processing of so-called data streams has become a topic of active research in several fields of computer science such as, e.g., distributed sys...