Data about everything is readily available on the web—but often only accessible through elaborate user interactions. For automated decision support, extracting that data is esse...
Andrew Jon Sellers, Tim Furche, Georg Gottlob, Gio...
The exponential growth of data demands scalable infrastructures capable of indexing and searching rich content such as text, music, and images. A promising direction is to combine...
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...
In the real world, lots of objects with changing position can be found. Some of them repeat the same movement several times, called periodic movements. Examples include airplanes,...
Constructing and maintaining semantic mappings are necessary but troublesome in data sharing systems. While most current work focuses on seeking automated techniques to solve this...