We study containment and equivalence of (unions of) conjunctive queries on relations annotated with elements of a commutative semiring. Such relations and the semantics of positiv...
Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
A framework for describing semantic relationships among nodes in XML documents is presented. In contrast to earlier work, the XML documents may have ID references (i.e., they corr...
Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza, Benny Kimelfeld, Yehoshua...
We present a semantic caching scheme suitable for caching responses from Web services on the SOAP protocol level. Existing semantic caching schemes for database systems or Web sour...
Abstract. Wikis have demonstrated how it is possible to convert a community of strangers into a community of collaborators. Semantic wikis have opened an interesting way to mix web...