The rapid growth of available data arises the need for more sophisticated techniques for semantic access to information. It has been proved that using conceptual model or ontology...
Even though the large body of knowledge of relational query optimization techniques can be utilized as a starting point for object-oriented query optimization the full exploitatio...
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
The exponential growth and reliability of Wikipedia have made it a promising data source for intelligent systems. The first challenge of Wikipedia is to make the encyclopedia mac...
Current computer security systems are based on the premise that once a user presents valid credentials to the authentication system (e.g. valid ID and password), they are granted ...