Recent interests on XML, Semantic Web, and Web ontology, among other topics, have sparked a renewed interest on graph-structured databases. A fundamental query on graphs is the re...
The PolicyUpdater1 system is a generic access control system that provides policy evaluations and dynamic policy updates. These functions are achieved by the use of a logic-based ...
This paper deals with one aspect of the index quality of search engines: index freshness. The purpose is to analyse the update strategies of the major Web search engines Google, Y...
The need for integration of ontologies with nonmonotonic rules has been gaining importance in a number of areas, such as the Semantic Web. A number of researchers addressed this p...
Freshness and accuracy are two key measures of quality of service (QoS) in location-based, mobile continual queries (CQs). However, it is often difficult to provide both fresh and ...