The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...
Web search engines are often presented with user queries that involve comparisons of real-world entities. Thus far, this interaction has typically been captured by users submittin...
Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of tuples returned by a query; it is a fundamentally important task in data management, used in query optimization, ...
The domain-specific track evaluates retrieval models for structured scientific bibliographic collections in English, German and Russian. Documents contain elements (title, abstrac...
Traditional semantic web query languages support a logicbased access to the semantic web. They offer a retrieval (or reasoning) of data based on facts. On the traditional web and...