We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...
In this paper we address the problem of minimizing the response time of a multi-way join query using pipelined (inter-operator) parallelism, in a parallel or a distributed environ...
We study conjunctive query answering in the description logic EL, the core of the designated OWL2-EL profile of OWL2. In particular, we present an approach that allows the use of c...
This paper describes a Web-based query system for semantically heterogeneous geospatial data. Our goal is to provide DBMS type query capabilities to a proposed statewide land info...
Nancy Wiegand, Naijun Zhou, Stephen J. Ventura, Is...
A combination of query-by-visual-example (QBVE) and semantic retrieval (SR), denoted as query-by-semantic-example (QBSE), is proposed. Images are labeled with respect to a vocabula...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Nuno Vasconcelos, Pedro J. Moren...