We propose a simple approach to combining first-order logic and probabilistic graphical models in a single representation. A Markov logic network (MLN) is a first-order knowledge b...
To discover knowledge or retrieve information from a relational database, a user often needs to find objects related to certain source objects. There are two main challenges in b...
Scalable query answering over Description Logic (DL) based ontologies plays an important role for the success of the Semantic Web. Towards tackling the scalability problem, we prop...
The XML format has become the standard for data exchange because it is self-describing and it stores not only information but also the relationships between data. Therefore it is u...
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...