We consider the following scenario for a mapping system: given a source schema, a target schema, and a set of value correspondences between these two schemas, generate an executab...
Dataspace applications necessitate the creation of associations among data items over time. For example, once information about people is extracted from sources on the Web, associa...
Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens Dittrich, Lukas Bl...
On the Web, there is a pervasive use of XML to give lightweight semantics to textual collections. Such documentcentric XML collections require a query language that can gracefully...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...
Many applications in analytical domains often have the need to "connect the dots" i.e., query about the structure of data. In bioinformatics for example, it is typical t...
Unlike numerical preferences, preferences on attribute values do not show an inherent total order, but skyline computation has to rely on partial orderings explicitly stated by th...