Conventional operators for data retrieval are either based on exact matching or on total order relationship among elements. Neither of them is appropriate to manage complex data, s...
The pebble tree automaton and the pebble tree transducer are enhanced by additionally allowing an unbounded number of `invisible' pebbles (as opposed to the usual `visible...
Joost Engelfriet, Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, Bart Samw...
Different information retrieval (IR) systems often return very diverse results lists for the same query. This is problematic for users since no one IR system works best for every ...
Client/server information systems use caching techniques to reduce the volume of transmitted data as well as response time and, especially in the case of systems with mobile clien...
Abstract. In order to effectively and quickly answer queries in environments with distributed RDF/OWL, we present a query optimization algorithm to identify the potentially relevan...