We study the problem of answering queries over sources with limited access patterns. Given a first-order query Q, the problem is to decide whether there is an equivalent query whi...
A large fraction of the useful web comprises of specification documents that largely consist of hattribute name, numeric valuei pairs embedded in text. Examples include product in...
The modeling of high level semantic events from low level sensor signals is important in order to understand distributed phenomena. For such content-modeling purposes, transformat...
The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities and the advances in information extraction have enabled the construction of large knowledge bases using the RDF data model to re...
Nicoleta Preda, Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchane...
Queries involving aggregation are typical in a number of database research areas, such as data warehousing, global information systems and mobile computing. One of the main ideas ...