Answering queries over an incomplete database w.r.t. a set of constraints is an important computational task with applications in fields as diverse as information integration and ...
The emergence of a large number of bioinformatics datasets on the Internet has resulted in the need for flexible and efficient approaches to integrate information from multiple bio...
Snehal Thakkar, José Luis Ambite, Craig A. Knoblo...
To make the World Wide Web machine-understandable there is a strong demand both for languages describing metadata and for languages querying metadata. The Resource Description Fram...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Richard Vdovj...
Abstract-- We present COLR-Tree, an abstraction layer designed to support efficient spatio-temporal queries on live data gathered from a large collection of sensors. We use COLR-Tr...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...