Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
This paper focuses on the optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics employed by Portal Catalogs like Netscape Open Directory (ODP). We ad...
Driven by the success of the Linked Open Data initiative today’s Semantic Web is best characterized as a Web of interlinked datasets. Hand in hand with this structure new challen...
Andreas Schwarte, Peter Haase, Katja Hose, Ralf Sc...
: Skyline queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query formulation: users can state preferences with respect to several attributes. Unlike numeric...
In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which multiple users have distinct preferences. However, making su...