In order to deal with inconsistent databases, a repair semantics defines a set of admissible database instances that restore consistency, while staying close to the original insta...
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...
-- In this paper, we put forward our approach for answering aggregated queries over imprecise data using domain specific taxonomies. A new concept we call the weighted hierarchical...
In this paper, we define a simple but scalable framework for peer-to-peer data sharing systems, in which the problem of answering queries over a network of semantically related p...
Abstract. The question answering systems are considered the next generation of search engines. This paper focuses on the first step of this process, which is to search for relevant...