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GPC
2010
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Distributed Island-Based Query Answering for Expressive Ontologies
Scalability of reasoning systems is one of the main criteria which will determine the success of Semantic Web systems in the future. The focus of recent work is either on (a) expre...
Sebastian Wandelt, Ralf Möller
PODS
2005
ACM
104views Database» more  PODS 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Views and queries: determinacy and rewriting
We investigate the question of whether a query can be answered using a set V of views. We first define the problem in information-theoretic terms: we say that V determines if V pr...
Luc Segoufin, Victor Vianu
WEBDB
2005
Springer
97views Database» more  WEBDB 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
The Framework of an XML Semantic Caching System
As a simple XML query language but with enough expressive power, XPath has become very popular. To expedite evaluation of XPath queries, we consider the problem of caching results...
Wanhong Xu
SIGMOD
1995
ACM
88views Database» more  SIGMOD 1995»
14 years 8 days ago
Semantic Assumptions and Query Evaluation in Temporal Databases
When querying a temporal database, a user often makes certain semantic assumptions on stored temporal data. This paper formalizes and studies two types of semantic assumptions: po...
Claudio Bettini, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Elisa Bertino...
SMC
2010
IEEE
124views Control Systems» more  SMC 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
SoftFacts: A top-k retrieval engine for ontology mediated access to relational databases
—We outline SoftFacts, an ontology mediated top-k information retrieval system over relational databases. An ontology layer is used to define (in terms of a OWL-QL like Semantic...
Umberto Straccia