To support users in querying geographic databases we have developed a system that lets people sketch what they are looking for. It closes the gap between user and information syst...
We present an optimized query rewriting algorithm for OWL 2 QL that computes the rewriting set of a user query by avoiding unnecessary inferences and extended clause subsumption ch...
This paper deals with a problem of multicriteria selection assuming uncertainties including linguistic modifiers both in given data and in queries referring to these data. An app...
XML and other types of semi-structured data are typically represented by a labeled directed graph. To speed up path expression queries over the graph, a variety of structural inde...
The rapid adoption of XML as the standard for data representation and exchange foreshadows a massive increase in the amounts of XML data collected, maintained, and queried over th...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....