We develop a data integration approach for the efficient evaluation of queries over autonomous source databases. The approach is based on some novel applications and extensions of...
Current proposals for XML change detection use structural constraints to detect the changes and they ignore semantic constraints. Consequently, they may produce semantically incorr...
In the context of relational as well as deductive databases, correct and efficient integrity checking is a crucial issue, as, without any guarantee of data consistency, the answers...
Deep web search requires a transformation between search keywords and semantically described and well-formed data structures. We approached this problem in our "In the Web of ...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...