— The amount of semantic data on the Web has increased exponentially in the last years. One of the main reasons for this is the use of RDB2RDF systems, which generate RDF data fr...
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
Relational index structures, as for instance the Relational Interval Tree or the Linear Quadtree, support efficient processing of queries on top of existing object-relational datab...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. This structured data is increasingly exposed using information extraction systems, which generate structured relation...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...