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On Temporal Cardinality in the Context of the TOWL Language
The TOWL language is a temporal ontology language built on top of OWL-DL that enables descriptions involving time and temporal aspects such as change and state transitions. Extendi...
Viorel Milea, Michael Mrissa, Kees van der Sluijs,...
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A Semantic and Language-Based Model of Landscape Scenes
Abstract. The modelling of landscape environment is a cognitive activity, that still requires novel kinds of spatial representations. This paper introduces a structural categorisat...
Jean-Marie Le Yaouanc, Eric Saux, Christophe Clara...
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Managing the History of Metadata in Support for DB Archiving and Schema Evolution
Modern information systems, and web information systems in particular, are faced with frequent database schema changes, which generate the necessity to manage them and preserve the...
Carlo Curino, Hyun Jin Moon, Carlo Zaniolo
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Integration of Genomic, Proteomic and Biomedical Information on the Semantic Web
Bill Andreopoulos, Aijun An, Xiangji Huang, Dirk L...
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The Situation Lens: Looking into Personal Service Composition
Abstract. In this paper we discuss about composing services from standard suites of applications for personal data management in mobile devices. We propose a data model and an inte...
Augusto Celentano, Stefano Faralli, Fabio Pittarel...
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Abstract State Services
act State Services Hui Ma1 Klaus-Dieter Schewe2 Bernhard Thalheim Qing Wang4 Bericht Nr. 0804 Mai 2008 CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSIT
Hui Ma, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Bernhard Thalheim, Qi...
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Towards a Compositional Semantic Account of Data Quality Attributes
We address the fundamental question: what does it mean for data in a database to be of high quality? We motivate our discussion with examples, where traditional views on data quali...
Lei Jiang, Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos
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Design Metrics for Data Warehouse Evolution
During data warehouse design, the designer frequently encounters the problem of choosing among different alternatives for the same design construct. The behavior of the chosen desi...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Si...
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Temporal Constraints in Non-temporal Data Modelling Languages
It is common to find that the definition or common usage of a data modelling language causes there to be restrictions placed on the evolution of data values that are associated wit...
Peter McBrien
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Retune: Retrieving and Materializing Tuple Units for Effective Keyword Search over Relational Databases
The existing approaches of keyword search over relational databases always identify the relationships between tuples on the fly, which are rather inefficient as such relational rel...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Lizhu Zhou