Many new applications that involve decision making need online (i.e., OLAP-styled) preference analysis with multidimensional boolean selections. Typical preference queries includes...
Abstract. The task of similarity search in multimedia databases is usually accomplished by range or k nearest neighbor queries. However, the expressing power of these "single-...
W3C currently extends the SPARQL query language with so-called entailment regimes, which define how queries are evaluated using logical entailment relations. We describe a sound a...
An important reasoning task, in addition to the standard DL reasoning services, is conjunctive query answering. In this paper, we present a decision procedure for conjunctive query...