The goal of the Semantic Web is to support semantic interoperability between applications exchanging data on the web. The idea heavily relies on data being made available in machi...
In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
Tree based indexing structures like -trees, ·-trees, Bitmap indexes and Ê-trees have become essential for getting good performance when accessing vast datasets. However, most dat...
Yannis Kotidis, Yannis Sismanis, Nick Roussopoulos
This paper describes a query algebra for queries over XML p2p databases that provides explicit mechanisms for modeling data dissemination, replication constraints, and for capturi...
We are interested in the problem of validating the consistency of integrity constraints when data is modi ed. In particular, we consider how constraints can be checked with only p...
Jennifer Widom, Ashish Gupta, Yehoshua Sagiv, Jeff...