In the classical database world, information access has been based on a paradigm that involves structured, schema-aware, queries and tabular answers. In the current environment, h...
The purpose of the chapter is to help someone familiar with DLs to understand the issues involved in developing an ontology for some universe of discourse, which is to become a co...
We study peer-to-peer ðP2PÞ data integration, where each peer models an autonomous system that exports data in terms of its own schema, and data interoperation is achieved by me...
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lem...
In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...
In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and data warehouses. We consider its simplest ...