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ICCS
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Distinguishing Answers in Conceptual Graph Knowledge Bases
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...
Nicolas Moreau, Michel Leclère, Madalina Cr...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
176views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
URank: formulation and efficient evaluation of top-k queries in uncertain databases
Top-k processing in uncertain databases is semantically and computationally different from traditional top-k processing. The interplay between query scores and data uncertainty ma...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Kevin Chen-Chua...
TMC
2010
119views more  TMC 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
SSUM: Smart Server Update Mechanism for Maintaining Cache Consistency in Mobile Environments
—This paper proposes a cache consistency scheme based on a previously proposed architecture for caching database data in MANETs. The original scheme for data caching stores the q...
Khaleel W. Mershad, Hassan Artail
IDEAS
2010
IEEE
238views Database» more  IDEAS 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
An integrative approach to query optimization in native XML database management systems
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
Andreas M. Weiner, Theo Härder
SSDBM
2002
IEEE
109views Database» more  SSDBM 2002»
15 years 9 months ago
Query Processing with Description Logic Ontologies Over Object-Wrapped Databases
This paper presents an approach to answering queries over an ontology modelled using a description logic. The ontology acts as a global schema, providing a declarative description...
Martin Peim, Enrico Franconi, Norman W. Paton, Car...