Ontologies are becoming increasingly prevalent and important in a wide range of e-commerce applications. E-commerce applications are using ontologies to support parametric searches...
: The World Wide Web’s anticipated scope as an environment for knowledge exchange has changed dramatically. Without major modifications to its primary mechanisms the Web has turn...
We present a new approximation algorithm based on an exact representation of the state space S, using decision diagrams, and of the transition rate matrix R, using Kronecker algeb...
Andrew S. Miner, Gianfranco Ciardo, Susanna Donate...
TASTIER is a research project on the new information-access paradigm called type-ahead search, in which systems find answers to a keyword query on-the-fly as users type in the quer...
Guoliang Li, Shengyue Ji, Chen Li, Jiannan Wang, J...
Applications have an increasing need to manage semistructured data such as data encoded in XML along with conventional structured data. We extend the structured object database ...
Tirthankar Lahiri, Serge Abiteboul, Jennifer Widom