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GISCIENCE
2008
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Road Networks and Their Incomplete Representation by Network Data Models
Road networks, roads, and junctions are examples of natural language terms whose semantics can be described by affordances of their physical referents. In order to define affordanc...
Simon Scheider, Werner Kuhn
OWLED
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Enhancing Web Portals with Ontology-Based Data Access: The Case Study of South Africa's Accessibility Portal for People with Dis
Abstract. Web portal software is relatively easy to set up and populate from the perspective of the end-user, but it leaves the back-end database devoid of subject domain semantics...
C. Maria Keet, Ronell Alberts, Aurona Gerber, Gibs...
PODS
2010
ACM
150views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 23 days ago
Understanding queries in a search database system
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...
PODS
1995
ACM
139views Database» more  PODS 1995»
13 years 11 months ago
Normalizing Incomplete Databases
Databases are often incomplete because of the presence of disjunctive information, due to con icts, partial knowledge and other reasons. Queries against such databases often ask q...
Leonid Libkin
SAC
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Web-based graphical querying of databases through an ontology: the Wonder system
Biological scientists have made large amounts of data available on the Web, which can be accessed by canned or precomputed queries presented via web forms. To satisfy further info...
Diego Calvanese, C. Maria Keet, Werner Nutt, Maria...