The use of semantic knowledge in its various forms has become an important aspect in managing data in database and information systems. In the form of integrity constraints, it ha...
In this paper we focus on the following problem in information management: given a large collection of recorded information and some knowledge of the process that is generating th...
We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...
This paper studies, for the first time, the management of type information for an important class of semi-structured data: nested DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs) that describe exec...
Abstract. In many cases, users may want to consider incomplete answers to their queries. Often, however, there is an overwhelming number of such answers, even if subsumed answers a...