Selectivity estimation is an important step of query optimization in a database management system, and multidimensional histogram techniques have proved promising for selectivity ...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMSs) have been introduced as a solution to the problem of large-scale sharing of semantically rich data. A PDMS consists of semantic peers connecte...
Abstract. We extend different Description Logics by concrete domains (such as integers and reals) and by aggregation functions over these domains (such as min;max;count;sum), which...
For studying gene regulatory and protein signaling networks, we have developed an interactive map for the Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome. We first represent genes, proteins and the...
An important reality when integrating scientific data is the fact that data may often be "missing", partially specified, or conflicting. Therefore, in this paper, we pre...