There are a lot of application domains, e.g. sensor databases, traffic management or recognition systems, where objects have to be compared based on vague and uncertain data. Feat...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...
The increasing amount of data on the Semantic Web offers opportunities for semantic search. However, formal query hinders the casual users in expressing their information need as t...
Haofen Wang, Kang Zhang, Qiaoling Liu, Thanh Tran,...
The Web contains a large amount of documents and increasingly, also semantic data in the form of RDF triples. Many of these triples are annotations that are associated with docume...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
An ever-increasing amount of data and semantic knowledge in the domain of life sciences is bringing about new data management challenges. In this paper we focus on adding the seman...