Many stream processing applications require access to a multitude of streaming as well as stored data sources. Yet there is no clear semantics for correct continuous query executi...
Irina Botan, Peter M. Fischer, Donald Kossmann, Ne...
The fundamental drawback of unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is the flooding-based query processing protocol that seriously limits their scalability. As a result, a signi...
Wikipedia infoboxes is an example of a seemingly structured, yet extraordinarily heterogeneous dataset, where any given record has only a tiny fraction of all possible fields. Su...
The semantic web is based on ontologies and metadata that indexes resources using ontologies. This indexing is called annotation. Ontology based information retrieval is an operati...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges as they need to process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents. To deal with this heavy workloa...