The goal of this paper is to give an overview of the basics of the theory of RDF databases. We provide a formal definition of RDF that includes the features that distinguish this m...
We study the problem of deciding whether two ontologies are inseparable w.r.t. a signature Σ, i.e., whether they have the same consequences in the signature Σ. A special case is...
We explore the implications of supporting bags (i.e. multisets) in a data model and associated query language, and present some formal results concerned with the algebraic propert...
In order to make more flexible database access the query language SQLf has been previously proposed. One of the SQLf features is the use of Fuzzy Quantifiers in Having Clause. For...
We consider the recently proposed XQL language, which is designed to query XML documents by content and structure. We show that an already existing model, namely \Proximal Nodes&q...