This paper is mainly concerned with the extension of database management systems querying capabilities, so that users may address queries involving preferences and get discriminate...
Current geographic information systems (GISs) have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little support to those users ...
In recent years, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has been recognized as an effective tool for Information Retrieval in text documents. The level of "granularity" in LSI (...
Annotea provides an annotation protocol to support collaborative Semantic Web-based annotation of digital resources accessible through the Web. It provides a model whereby a user m...
We study containment and equivalence of (unions of) conjunctive queries on relations annotated with elements of a commutative semiring. Such relations and the semantics of positiv...