XML queries typically specify patterns of selection predicates on multiple elements that have some specified tree structured relationships. The primitive tree structured relations...
Shurug Al-Khalifa, H. V. Jagadish, Jignesh M. Pate...
We compare and contrast Description Logic (DL) and Order-Sorted Feature (OSF) Logic from the perspective of using them for expressing and reasoning with knowledge structures of the...
Semantic Role Labeling cannot be performed without an associated linguistic resource. A key resource for such a task is the FrameNet resource based on Fillmore's theory of fr...
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...