The emergence of the Semantic Web has led to the creation of large semantic knowledge bases, often in the form of RDF databases. Improving the performance of RDF databases necessit...
— A paramount challenge in probabilistic databases is the scalable computation of confidences of tuples in query results. This paper introduces an efficient secondary-storage o...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...
Supporting SPARQL queries over relational databases becomes an active topic recently. However, it has not received enough consideration when SPARQL queries include restrictions on...
We study the problem of querying relational data embedded in XML. Relational data can be represented by various tree structures in XML. However, current XML query methods, such as...