The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
Background: High-density tiling arrays and new sequencing technologies are generating rapidly increasing volumes of transcriptome and protein-DNA interaction data. Visualization a...
J. Christopher Bare, Tie Koide, David J. Reiss, Da...
Many programs need to access data in a relational database. This is usually done by means of queries written in SQL. Although the language SQL is declarative, certain runtime erro...
In order to formulate a meaningful XML query, a user must have some knowledge of the schema of the XML documents to be queried. The query will succeed only if the schema of the ac...
Cindy X. Chen, George A. Mihaila, Sriram Padmanabh...
In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...