The problem of nding the best answers to a query quickly, rather than nding all answers, is of increasing importance as relational databases are applied in multimedia and decision...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature, and we can expose this structured data using information extraction technology. By processing a text database with inf...
We believe that the possibility to use SPARQL as a front end to heterogeneous data without significant cost in performance or expressive power is key to RDF taking its rightful pla...
Query optimization is a computationally intensive process, especially for complex queries. We present here a tool, called PLASTIC, that can be used by query optimizers to amortize...
Antara Ghosh, Jignashu Parikh, Vibhuti S. Sengar, ...
AGENDA is a tool set for testing relational database applications. An earlier prototype was targeted to applications consisting of a single query and included components for popul...