With new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated Semantic Web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is about to appear. Traditional semantic r...
Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe Cudré...
A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k q...
Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nick Koudas, Niko...
Background: Biomedical ontologies are being widely used to annotate biological data in a computer-accessible, consistent and well-defined manner. However, due to their size and co...
Catherine Beauheim, Farrell Wymore, Michael Nitzbe...
Combining and analyzing data collected at multiple locations is critical for a wide variety of applications, such as detecting and diagnosing malicious attacks or computing an acc...
Benny Applebaum, Haakon Ringberg, Michael J. Freed...
Web-based data sources, particularly in Life Sciences, grow in diversity and volume. Most of the data collections are equipped with common document search, hyperlink and retrieval...
Stephan Heymann, Katja Tham, Axel Kilian, Gunnar W...