Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...
Libraries, museums, and other organizations make their electronic contents available to a growing number of users on the Web. A large fraction of the information published is store...
In this paper we describe a method to perform type inference over data stored in an RDBMS, where rules over the data are specified using OWLDL. Since OWL-DL is an implementation of...
Extensibility is one of the mayor benefits of object-relational database management systems. We have used this system property to implement a StateMachine Module inside an object-...
Wolfgang Mahnke, Christian Mathis, Hans-Peter Stei...