— Multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) is crucial in many business and web applications such as web searches, B2B portals and on-line commerce. Such MCDS applications need to r...
We study the problem of generating e cient, equivalent rewritings using views to compute the answer to a query. We take the closed-world assumption, in which views are materialize...
Abstract. Abduction is a fundamental mode of reasoning, which has taken on increasing importance in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related disciplines. Computing abductive expla...
In this paper, we introduce U-MAP, a new system for schema mapping generation. U-MAP builds upon and extends existing schema mapping techniques. However, it mitigates some key pro...
The management of voluminous heterogeneous resources and services in the web environment is a complex task. Semantic knowledge is playing an increasing important role in order to h...