The need for incremental constraint maintenance within collections of semi-structured documents has been ever increasing in the last years due to the widespread diffusion of XML. T...
Abstract. The rapid expansion of the Internet and World Wide Web led to growing interest in data and information integration, which should be capable to deal with inconsistent and ...
In the context of relational as well as deductive databases, correct and efficient integrity checking is a crucial issue, as, without any guarantee of data consistency, the answers...
Abstract: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning can be greatly improved if metric information can be represented and reasoning can be performed on it; moreover, modelling vagueness and unc...
While similarity has gained in importance in research about information retrieval on the (geospatial) semantic Web, information retrieval paradigms and their integration into exist...