Abstract. This paper presents the semantics of database mappings in the relational database (DB) category, based on the power-view monad T and monadic algebras. The semantics can b...
The vision of the Semantic Web is to give data on the web a welldefined meaning by representing it in RDF and linking it to commonly accepted ontologies. Most formatted data today...
Abstract: Denotational semantics is a powerful technique to formally define programming languages. However, language constructs are not always orthogonal, so many semantic equation...
Top-k processing in uncertain databases is semantically and computationally different from traditional top-k processing. The interplay between score and uncertainty makes traditio...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Kevin Chen-Chua...
—Many modern optimizers use a transformation rule based framework. While there has been a lot of work on identifying new transformation rules, there has been little work focused ...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Leo Giakoumakis, Vivek R. Naras...