: Information integration requires manipulating data and metadata in ways that in general go beyond a single existing transformation formalism. As a result, a complete source-to-ta...
We present SECONDO, a new generic environment supporting the implementation of database systems for a wide range of data models and query languages. On the one hand, this framewor...
An important issue for the Semantic Web is how to combine open-world ontology languages with closed-world (non-monotonic) rule paradigms. Several proposals for hybrid languages all...
Given a point set S and an unknown metric d on S, we study the problem of efficiently partitioning S into k clusters while querying few distances between the points. In our model...
Konstantin Voevodski, Maria-Florina Balcan, Heiko ...
We present a deductive data model for concept-based query expansion. It is based abstraction levels: the conceptual, the expression and the occurrence level. Concepts and their re...