Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
Incorporating probabilities into the semantics of incomplete databases has posed many challenges, forcing systems to sacrifice modeling power, scalability, or treatment of relatio...
With the increasing development of real applications using Semantic Web Technologies, it is necessary to provide scalable and efficient ontology querying and reasoning systems. In ...
DHTs are scalable, self-organizing, and adaptive to underlying topology changes, thus being a promising infrastructure for realizing efficient Web service discovery. Range queries...
Semistructured data is not strictly typed like relational or object-oriented data and may be irregular or incomplete. It often arises in practice, e.g., when heterogeneous data so...
Serge Abiteboul, Jason McHugh, Michael Rys, Vasili...