Abstract. The task of similarity search in multimedia databases is usually accomplished by range or k nearest neighbor queries. However, the expressing power of these "single-...
W3C currently extends the SPARQL query language with so-called entailment regimes, which define how queries are evaluated using logical entailment relations. We describe a sound a...
In this paper, we introduce preferential regular path queries. These are regular path queries whose symbols are annotated with preference weights for “scaling” up or down the i...
Currently, there are two main basic approaches to data integration: Global-as-View (GaV) and Local-as-View (LaV). However, both GaV and LaV have their limitations. In a GaV approa...
Frequent elements and top-k queries constitute an important class of queries for data stream analysis applications. Certain applications require answers for both frequent elements...