Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
Ontology languages to represent ontologies exist in large numbers, and users who want to access or reuse ontologies can often be confronted with a language they do not know. Theref...
Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Sturm, Klaus R. Dittric...
This paper describes the design and implementation of an XML storage manager for fast and interactive XPath expressions evaluation. This storage manager has two main parts: the XML...
In this paper, we describe and situate the TUPELO system for data mapping in relational databases. Automating the discovery of mappings between structured data sources is a long st...
A database schema should be able to evolve to reflect changes to the universe it represents. In existing systems, user transactions get blocked during complex schema transformation...