Agent systems that search the Semantic Web are seen as killer applications for description logic (DL) inference engines. The guiding examples for the Semantic Web involve informat...
The Semantic Web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. To this point, researchers have defined new l...
Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Peter Mork, Igor ...
As XQuery nears standardization, more sophisticated XQuery applications are emerging, which often exploit the entire language and are applied to non-trivial XML sources. We propos...
Dimension hierarchies represent a substantial part of the data warehouse model. Indeed they allow decision makers to examine data at different levels of detail with On-Line Analyt...
Integrity checking is an essential means for the preservation of the intended semantics of a deductive database. Incrementality is the only feasible approach to checking and can be...