The relational algebra and calculus do not take the semantics of terms into account when answering queries. As a consequence, not all tuples that should be returned in response to ...
Octavian Udrea, Yu Deng, Edward Hung, V. S. Subrah...
This paper presents an approach to answering queries over an ontology modelled using a description logic. The ontology acts as a global schema, providing a declarative description...
Martin Peim, Enrico Franconi, Norman W. Paton, Car...
Enabling keyword queries over relational databases (KQDB) benefits a large population of users who have difficulty in understanding the database schema or using SQLs. However, sin...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature, and we can expose this structured data using information extraction technology. By processing a text database with inf...
We apply multiple query optimization to batches of pull (on-demand) requests in a mobile database system. The resulting view can answer several queries at once, and it is broadcas...