— In order to predict the durability of engineering components and improve performance, it is mandatory to understand residual stresses. The last decade has witnessed a significa...
Shu Yan Zhang, Willem J. J. Vorster, Tea-Sung Jun,...
Spatial join is an important yet costly operation in spatial databases. In order to speed up the execution of a spatial join, the input tables are often indexed based on their spa...
Recently the Ontology Mapping Problem (OMP) has been identified as a key factor towards the success of the Semantic Web and related applications. This problem arises since it is po...
Abstract. Modern description logic (DL) reasoners are known to be less efficient for DLs with inverse roles. The current loss of performance is largely due to the missing applicabi...
For description logics with existential restrictions, the size of the least common subsumer (lcs) of concept descriptions may grow exponentially in the size of the concept descrip...