This paper describes a Web service for accessing WordNet-type semantic lexicons. The central idea behind the service design is: given a query, the primary functionality of lexicon...
Savas Ali Bora, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Monica Monachin...
Column-stores gained popularity as a promising physical design alternative. Each attribute of a relation is physically stored as a separate column allowing queries to load only th...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major Websupported application. In this paper we argue that database technology can, and should, provide the backbone for a wide range of such...
Serge Abiteboul, Bernd Amann, Sophie Cluet, Anat E...
Though partially automated, developing schema mappings remains a complex and potentially error-prone task. In this paper, we present TRAMP (TRAnsformation Mapping Provenance), an ...
We propose an approach for the selective enforcement of access control restrictions in, possibly distributed, large data collections based on two basic concepts: i) flexible autho...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...