In the last few years an interest in native XML databases has surfaced. With other authors we argue that such databases need their own provisions for concurrency control since tra...
The identification and processing of similarities in the data play a key role in multiple application scenarios. Several types of similarity-aware operations have been studied in ...
Abstract. Ontology reasoning is an indispensable step to fully exploit the implicit semantics of Semantic Web data. The inherent distribution characteristic of the Semantic Web and...
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major Websupported application. In this paper we argue that database technology can, and should, provide the backbone for a wide range of such...
Serge Abiteboul, Bernd Amann, Sophie Cluet, Anat E...
Abstract. This paper describes the new e-learning tool CHESt that allows students to search in a knowledge base for short (teaching) multimedia clips by using a semantic search eng...