Abstract. Tree-walking automata (TWAs) recently received new attention in the fields of formal languages and databases. Towards a better understanding of their expressiveness, we c...
Ontology-based data access is a powerful form of extending database technology, where a classical extensional database (EDB) is enhanced by an ontology that generates new intensio...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
We present the Lixto project, which is both a research project in database theory and a commercial enterprise that develops Web data extraction (wrapping) and Web service definiti...
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Robert Baumgartner,...
In this paper we present a formal framework and tool supporting the user in the task of formulating a precise query – which best captures their information needs – even in the ...
Enrico Franconi, Paolo Guagliardo, Marco Trevisan,...