We study the problem of answering queries through a target schema, given a set of mappings between one or more source schemas and this target schema, and given that the data is at...
Defeasible reasoning is a rule-based approach for efficient reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent information. Such reasoning is useful for many applications in the Semantic W...
Nick Bassiliades, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Grigoris...
: Two major problems in constructing data federations (for example, data warehouses and database federations) concern achieving and maintaining consistency and a uniform representa...
Validation of multi-column schema matchings is essential for successful database integration. This task is especially difficult when the databases to be integrated contain little o...
Bing Tian Dai, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ant...
The development of more and more complex distributed applications over large networks of computers has raised the problem of semantic interoperability across applications based on ...
Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini,...