Supporting fast access to large RDF stores has been one of key challenges for enabling use of the Semantic Web in real-life applications, more so in sensor-based systems where lar...
Craig Sayers, Geetha Manjunath, K. S. Venugopal, R...
Geo-ontologies have a key role to play in the development of the geospatial-semantic web, with regard to facilitating the search for geographical information and resources. They no...
Philip D. Smart, Alia I. Abdelmoty, Baher A. El-Ge...
We consider the problem of rewriting a query efficiently using materialized views. In the context of information integration, this problem has received significant attention in th...
Collection selection has been a research issue for years. Typically, in related work, precomputed statistics are employed in order to estimate the expected result quality of each ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...
Background: An adequate and expressive ontological representation of biological organisms and their parts requires formal reasoning mechanisms for their relations of physical aggr...