Abstract. Recently, the database and AI research communities have paid increased attention to ontologies. The main motivating reason is that ontologies promise solutions for comple...
Previous researchers note the problem for semantic optimisation of database queries caused by its production of a large number of semantically equivalent alternative queries, from...
“W3QL: A Query Language for the WWW”, published in 1995, presented a language with several distinctive features. Employing existing indexes as access paths, it allowed the sel...
Empirical equations are an important class of regularities that can be discovered in databases. In this paper we concentrate on the role of equations as de nitions of attribute val...
Spatial data are particularly useful in mobile environments. However, due to the low bandwidth of most wireless networks, developing large spatial database applications becomes a c...