Abstract. The natural and surrogate key architectures are two competing approaches to specifying keys in relational databases. We analyze the performance of these approaches with r...
Slavica Aleksic, Milan Celikovic, Sebastian Link, ...
Abstract The integration of database and programming languages is difficult due to the different data models and type systems prevalent in each field. We present a solution wher...
Miguel Garcia, Anastasia Izmaylova, Sibylle Schupp
Abstract— A number of recent results on optimization problems involving submodular functions have made use of the ”multilinear relaxation” of the problem [3], [8], [24], [14]...
Abstract. Recent research showed the benefits of adopting formal ontologies as a means for accessing heterogeneous data sources. The use of an ontology not only provides a uniform...
Abstract. We address the problem of answering queries using expressive symmetric inter-schema constraints which allow to establish mappings between several heterogeneous informatio...