Given a set of Datalog rules, facts, and a query, answers to the query can be inferred bottom-up starting with the facts or top-down starting with the query. For efficiently answe...
In data-integration systems, information sources often have various constraints such as “all houses stored at a source have a unique address.” These constraints are very usefu...
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
While standardization efforts for XML query languages have been progressing, researchers and users increasingly focus on the database technology that has to deliver on the new cha...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Florian Waas, Martin L. Ker...
User feedback has proven very successful to query large multimedia databases. Due to the nature of the data representation and the mismatch between mathematical models and human p...