An innate characteristic of the development of ontologies is that they are often created by independent groups of expertise, which generates the necessity of merging and aligning o...
Tools for generating test queries for databases do not explicitly take into account the actual data in the database. As a consequence, such tools cannot guarantee suitable coverag...
Active systems are emerging in many fields, being particularly interesting those like Active Database Management Systems which always provide some kind of reactive capabilities. I...
Despite of the fact that large line segment datasets are appearing more and more frequently in numerous applications involving spatial data, such as GIS 8, 9] multimedia 6] and ev...
Biological scientists have made large amounts of data available on the Web, which can be accessed by canned or precomputed queries presented via web forms. To satisfy further info...
Diego Calvanese, C. Maria Keet, Werner Nutt, Maria...