In earlier work we have introduced and explored a variety of different probabilistic models for the problem of answering selectivity queries posed to large sparse binary data set...
We propose a novel approach for ranking and retrieval of images based on multi-attribute queries. Existing image retrieval methods train separate classifiers for each word and he...
Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...
Abstract. The WSMO-MX matchmaker applies different matching filters to retrieve WSMO-oriented service descriptions that are semantically relevant to a given query with respect to...
In this paper, we present the results that we have obtained by comparing and testing three well-known database middleware solutions. We have analyzed their features related to glo...