Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...
: As Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a focus of current research, there are lots of approaches like query processing or routing issues that have to be evaluated. Since ther...
Katja Hose, Christian Lemke, Jana Quasebarth, Kai-...
The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessin...
Two approaches for integrating images into the framework of a database management system are presented. The classi cation approach preprocesses all images and attaches a semantic ...
We introduce query-free information retrieval, a paradigm in which queries are constructed autonomously and information relevant to a user is offered without explicit request. Que...