Abstract. Current peer-to-peer (p2p) systems place the burden of application-level query execution on the application developer. Not only do application developers lack the experti...
We present an optimized query rewriting algorithm for OWL 2 QL that computes the rewriting set of a user query by avoiding unnecessary inferences and extended clause subsumption ch...
— Multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) is crucial in many business and web applications such as web searches, B2B portals and on-line commerce. Such MCDS applications need to r...
Pervasive information systems give an overview of what digital environments should look like in the future. From a data-centric point of view, traditional databases have to be use...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is gaining more and more significance due to its widespread use currently and potential deployments in future applications. In this paper, we propose ...