The exponential growth of the web and the extended use of database management systems in widely distributed information systems has brought to the fore the need for seamless interc...
Ontologies can be used to provide an enriched vocabulary for the formulation of queries over instance data. We identify query emptiness and predicate emptiness as two central reas...
Franz Baader, Meghyn Bienvenu, Carsten Lutz, Frank...
In dynamic spatio-temporal environments where objects may continuously move in space, maintaining consistent information about the location of objects and processing motion-speciï¬...
The effects of word recognition errors (WRE) in Spoken Document Retrieval have been well studied and well reported in recent Information Retrieval (IR) literature. Much less exper...
In order to answer efficiently range queries in 2-d R-trees, first we sort queries by means of a space filling curve, then we group them together, and finally pass them for process...