Entity linkage is central to almost every data integration and data cleaning scenario. Traditional techniques use some computed similarity among data structure to perform merges a...
Ekaterini Ioannou, Wolfgang Nejdl, Claudia Nieder&...
Given two sets A and B of m non-intersecting line segments in the plane, we show how to compute in O(m log m) time a data structure that uses O(m) space and allows to answer the fo...
Otfried Cheong, Hazel Everett, Hyo-Sil Kim, Sylvai...
Real-world data -- especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks -- tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impo...
Abstract. For practical applications, the use of top-down query-driven proofprocedures is essential for an efficient use and computation of answers using Logic Programs as knowledg...
We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of...