Efficient reachability query answering in large directed graphs has been intensively investigated because of its fundamental importance in many application fields such as XML data ...
This paper describes the technical details of SemRetriev, a prototype system for image retrieval which combines the use of an ontology which structures an image repository and of ...
Background: Bio-ontologies are key elements of knowledge management in bioinformatics. Rich and rigorous bio-ontologies should represent biological knowledge with high fidelity an...
Currently, only few XML data management systems support concurrent access to an XML document, and if they do, they typically apply variations of hierarchical locking to handle XML...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...