Provenance is information that aids understanding and troubleshooting database queries by explaining the results in terms of the input. Slicing is a program analysis technique for...
—In the paper “semQA: SPARQL with Idempotent Disjunction” [Shironoshita et al. 2009], the authors study the RDF query language SPARQL. In particular, they claim that some of ...
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
Personalized database systems give users answers tailored to their personal preferences. While numerous preference evaluation methods for databases have been proposed (e.g., skylin...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
We study the scalable management of XML data in P2P networks based on distributed hash tables (DHTs). We identify performance limitations in this context, and propose an array of t...