Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...
In data-integration systems, information sources often have various constraints such as “all houses stored at a source have a unique address.” These constraints are very usefu...
In this paper, we propose the Hybrid-Layer Index (simply, the HL-index) that is designed to answer top-k queries efficiently when the queries are expressed on any arbitrary subset ...
Abstract. There is currently great interest in integrating knowledge discovery research into mainstream database systems. Such an enterprise is nontrivial because knowledge discove...
A procedure founded in instance-based learning is presented, for performing a form of analogical reasoning on knowledge bases expressed in a wide range of ontology languages. The p...