The largeness and the heterogeneity of most graph-modeled datasets in several database application areas make the query process a real challenge because of the lack of a complete ...
Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Giorgio Vi...
This paper proposes a method for automatic maintaining the similarity information for a particular class of Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS). The paper describes the three m...
Metaprogramming adds new expressive power to logic programming which can be advantageous to transfer to the field of deductive databases. We propose metaprogramming as a way to mo...
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Querying XML data is a well-explored topic with powerful databasestyle query languages such as XPath and XQuery set to become W3C standards. An equally compelling paradigm for que...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Shashank ...