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2008
13 years 8 months ago
Center Fragments for Upscaling and Verification in Database Semantics
The notion of a fragment was coined by Montague 1974 to illustrate the formal handling of certain puzzles, such as de dicto/de re, in a truth-conditional semantics for natural lan...
Roland Hausser
ICDE
1999
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
On the Semantics of Complex Events in Active Database Management Systems
Active database management systems have been developed for applications needing an automatic reaction in response to certain events. Events can be simple in nature or complex. Com...
Detlef Zimmer, Rainer Unland
DEXA
2009
Springer
151views Database» more  DEXA 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Ontologies Wrapping Relational Data Sources
Describing relational data sources (i.e. databases) by means of ontologies constitutes the foundation of most of the semantic based approaches to data access and integration. In sp...
Lina Lubyte, Sergio Tessaris
ADC
2005
Springer
114views Database» more  ADC 2005»
14 years 28 days ago
Optimization of Relational Preference Queries
The design and implementation of advanced personalized database applications requires a preference-driven approach. Representing preferences as strict partial orders is a good cho...
Bernd Hafenrichter, Werner Kießling
DEXA
1997
Springer
92views Database» more  DEXA 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
A Query Language and Interface for Integrated Media and Alphanumeric Database Systems
Abstract. In this paper, we consider a multidatabase system which consists of media databases and traditional alphanumeric databases. The semantic relationships which may exist amo...
Jia-Ling Koh, Arbee L. P. Chen, Paul C. M. Chang, ...