We describe and evaluate a query minimization technique that applies to XQueries, which are nested, perform arbitrary joins, and freely mix bag and set semantics. These features c...
Data integration is one of the older research fields in the database area and has emerged shortly after database systems were first introduced into the business world. In this pa...
Abstract. The alignment of different ontologies requires the specification, representation and execution of translation rules. The rules need to integrate translations at the lexic...
Fernando Silva Parreiras, Steffen Staab, Simon Sch...
Abstract. Sensor networks monitor physical phenomena over large geographic regions. Scientists can gain valuable insight into these phenomena, if they understand the underlying dat...
The two dominant costs in continuous spatial query systems are the wireless communication cost for location update, and the evaluation cost for query processing. Existing works add...