Searching and extracting meaningful information out of highly heterogeneous datasets is a hot topic that received a lot of attention. However, the existing solutions are based on e...
In this work we summarize our recent results on extending Description Logics for reasoning about prototypical properties and inheritance with exceptions. First, we focus our attent...
Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Nicola Olivetti...
Abstract. To meet the new, more sophisticated needs of decision makers, a new generation of BI systems is emerging. In this paper we focus on two enabling technologies for this new...
In the rank join problem, we are given a set of relations and a scoring function, and the goal is to return the join results with the top K scores. It is often the case in practic...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...