A simple extension to the relational model that permits metadata (more generally metaknowledge) to be stored and manipulated as first class data is proposed. The accompanying que...
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
Recommender systems are important to help users select relevant and personalised information over massive amounts of data available. We propose an unified framework called Prefer...
A join of two relations in real databases is usually much smaller than their cartesian product. This means that most of the combinations of tuples in the crossproduct of the respe...
Motivated by the possibilities of applying deductive database technology for efficient query answering in description logics, we present a translation operator µ that transforms...