Navigational queries on Web-accessible life science sources pose unique query optimization challenges. The objects in these sources are interconnected to objects in other sources, ...
Jens Bleiholder, Samir Khuller, Felix Naumann, Lou...
We consider the problem of querying data sources that have limited capabilities and can thus only be accessed by complying with certain binding patterns for their attributes. This ...
Generating query-answering plans for data integration systems requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a mediated schema, to a query that uses relations that are...
Oliver M. Duschka, Michael R. Genesereth, Alon Y. ...
Generating query-answering plans for information gathering agents requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a set of virtual relations, to a query that uses relat...
Informationgathering requires locating and integrating data froma set of distributed informationsources. These sources maycontain overlapping data and can comefrom different types...