The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
A range query applies an aggregation operation over all selected cells of an OLAP data cube where the selection is speci ed by providing ranges of values for numeric dimensions. W...
We study the problem of maintaining recursively-de ned views, such as the transitive closure of a relation, in traditional relational languages that do not have recursion mechanis...
When a user is looking for a product recommendation they usually lack expert knowledge regarding the items they are looking for. Ontologies on the other hand are crafted by experts...
We introduce a new type of diagram called the VV(c)-diagram (the visibility–Voronoi diagram for clearance c), which is a hybrid between the visibility graph and the Voronoi diag...