Data exchange, also known as data translation, has been extensively investigated in recent years. One main direction of research has focused on the semantics and the complexity of...
The Digital Video Album (DVA) system described here integrates various cooperating subsystems to index and query video documents according to their semantic content and other meta...
Qiuying Zhang, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, Philippe Mulh...
Query containment is the most fundamental relationship between a pair of database queries: a query Q is said to be contained in a query Q if the answer for Q is always a subset of...
Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
Abstract. Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rule...