We explore the implications of supporting bags (i.e. multisets) in a data model and associated query language, and present some formal results concerned with the algebraic propert...
In the recent years, query answering over Description Logic (DL) knowledge bases has been receiving increasing attention, and various methods and techniques have been presented for...
Thomas Eiter, Carsten Lutz, Magdalena Ortiz, Manta...
Abstract. To provide complex query processing in peer-to-peer systems has attracted much attention in both academic and industrial community. We present GChord, a scalable techniqu...
Several studies have focused on the efficient processing of simple spatial query types such as selections and spatial joins. Little work, however, has been done towards the optimiz...
We present the application of the Planning by Rewriting PbR framework to query planning in distributed and heterogeneous environments. PbR is a new paradigm for e cient high-quali...