Abstract. We briefly describe the results of an experimental study on the incremental creation of context out of the results of targeted queries, and discuss the increase in retri...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a fixpoint semantics for quantitative logic programming, which is able to both combine and correlate evidence from different sources of infor...
2. ODB-QOPTIMIZER : the tool ODB-QOPTIMIZERis a ODMG 93 compliant tool for the schema validation and semantic query optimization. The approach is based on two fundamental ingredien...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...
We explore a new proxy-caching framework that exploits the query semantics of HTML forms. We identify a common class of form-based queries, and study two representative caching sc...