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...
Recently, the extraordinarygrowth in the World Wide Web has been sweeping through business and industry. Many companies have developed or integrated their mission-critical applica...
Chien-Hung Liu, David Chenho Kung, Pei Hsia, Chih-...
Histograms have been widely used for fast estimation of query result sizes in query optimization. In this paper, we propose a new histogram method, called the Skew-Tolerant Histog...
Yohan J. Roh, Jae Ho Kim, Yon Dohn Chung, Jin Hyun...
Location-aware mobile users need to access, query, and visualize, geographic information in a wide variety of applications including tourism, navigation, environmental management,...
Suresh K. Lodha, Nikolai M. Faaland, Grant Wong, A...
Logic languages based on the theory of rational, possibly infinite, trees have much appeal in that rational trees allow for faster unification (due to the safe omission of the occ...
Roberto Bagnara, Roberta Gori, Patricia M. Hill, E...