The work reported here lays the foundations of data exchange in the presence of probabilistic data. This requires rethinking the very basic concepts of traditional data exchange, ...
Abstract. Policies are declarations of constraints on the behaviour of components within distributed systems, and are often used to capture norms within agent-based systems. A few ...
Murat Sensoy, Timothy J. Norman, Wamberto Weber Va...
The Web has the potential to become the world’s
largest knowledge base. In order to unleash this potential,
the wealth of information available on the Web needs to be
extracte...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...
This paper focuses on the optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics employed by Portal Catalogs like Netscape Open Directory (ODP). We ad...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...