RDF(S) and OWL 2 currently support only static ontologies. In practice, however, the truth of statements often changes with time, and Semantic Web applications often need to repres...
Correctly generating a structured query (e.g., an XQuery or a SQL query) requires the user to have a full understanding of the database schema, which can be a daunting task. Alter...
An important issue arising from Peer-to-Peer applications is how to accurately and efficiently retrieve a set of K best matching data objects from different sources while minimizi...
Abstract. Conventional web search engines retrieve too many documents for the majority of the submitted queries; therefore, they possess a good recall, since there are far more pag...
M. Barouni-Ebrahimi, Ebrahim Bagheri, Ali A. Ghorb...
We describe and evaluate a query minimization technique that applies to XQueries, which are nested, perform arbitrary joins, and freely mix bag and set semantics. These features c...