While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
The paper argues for the use of general and intuitive knowledge representation languages (and simpler notational variants, e.g. subsets of natural languages) for indexing the cont...
—Authority flow and proximity search have been used extensively in measuring the association between entities in data graphs, ranging from the Web to relational and XML database...
This paper introduces the concept of a Parameterised Search System (PSS), which allows flexibility in user queries, and, more importantly, allows system engineers to easily defin...
The need for descriptive information, i.e., metadata, about Web resources has been recognized in several application contexts (e.g., digital libraries, portals). The Resource Descr...
Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Kar...