Semantic query optimization (SQO) has been proved to be quite useful in various applications (e.g., data integration, graphical query generators, caching, etc.) and has been extens...
Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...
In dynamic spatio-temporal environments where objects may continuously move in space, maintaining consistent information about the location of objects and processing motion-speciï¬...
The purpose of this paper is two-fold: First, we give efficient algorithms for answering itemset support queries for collections of itemsets from various representations of the fre...
Information retrieval systems are frequently required to handle long queries. Simply using all terms in the query or relying on the underlying retrieval model to appropriately wei...