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AISADM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Querying Dynamic and Context-Sensitive Metadata in Semantic Web
RDF (core Semantic Web standard) is not originally appropriate for context representation, because of its initial focus on the ordinary Web resources, such as web pages, files, dat...
Sergiy Nikitin, Vagan Y. Terziyan, Yaroslav Tsaruk...
IDEAS
2003
IEEE
122views Database» more  IDEAS 2003»
14 years 23 days ago
Preferred Repairs for Inconsistent Databases
The objective of this paper is to investigate the problems related to the extensional integration of information sources. In particular, we propose an approach for managing incons...
Sergio Greco, Cristina Sirangelo, Irina Trubitsyna...
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
From Belief Change to Preference Change
Various tasks need to consider preferences in a dynamic way. We start by discussing several possible meanings of preference change, and then focus on the one we think is the most n...
Jérôme Lang, Leendert van der Torre
LPNMR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Complexity of the Stable Model Semantics for Queries on Incomplete Databases
Abstract. We study the complexity of consistency checking and query answering on incomplete databases for languages ranging from non-recursive Datalog to disjunctive Datalog with n...
Jos de Bruijn, Stijn Heymans
ICDE
2009
IEEE
170views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Semantics of Ranking Queries for Probabilistic Data and Expected Ranks
Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Graham Cormode, Feifei Li, Ke Yi