Current information retrieval (IR) approaches do not formally capture the explicit meaning of a keyword query but provide a comfortable way for the user to specify information need...
Thanh Tran, Philipp Cimiano, Sebastian Rudolph, Ru...
1 Many applications require integrated access to multiple distributed, autonomous, and often semantically disparate data. Hence there is a need for bridging the semantic gap betwe...
Abstract. We study a constrained version of the shortest path problem in polygonal domains, in which the path must visit a given target polygon. We provide an efficient algorithm f...
We solve the problem of obtaining answers to queries posed to a mediated integration system un der the local-as-view paradigm that are consistent wrt to certain global integrity...
Efficiently answering decision support queries is an important problem. Most of the work in this direction has been in the context of the data cube. Queries are efficiently answer...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Usama M. Fayyad, Paul S....