Accessing structured data such as that encoded in ontologies and knowledge bases can be done using either syntactically complex formal query languages like SPARQL or complicated fo...
The conflict between resource consumption and query performance in the data mining context often has no satisfactory solution. This not only stands in sharp contrast to the need of...
Matthias Gimbel, Michael Klein, Peter C. Lockemann
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
In this paper, a signature file method for indexing document database systems is presented. For this purpose, the concept of presentative word hierarchy is introduced, based on whi...
A key step in the optimization of declarative queries over XML data is estimating the selectivity of path expressions, i.e., the number of elements reached by a specific navigatio...
Natasha Drukh, Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofal...