We present here a formal foundation for an iterative and incremental approach to constructing and evaluating preference queries. Our main focus is query modification: a query tran...
Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...
The Semantic Web is based on the idea of adding more machine-readable semantics to web information via annotations written in a language called the Resource Description Framework ...
Given a set of points P and a query point q, the reverse furthest neighbor (RFN) query fetches the set of points p P such that q is their furthest neighbor among all points in P {...
We present a demo of ESTER, a search engine that combines the ease of use, speed and scalability of full-text search with the powerful semantic capabilities of ontologies. ESTER s...