While the Semantic Web is rapidly filling up, appropriate tools for searching it are still at infancy. In this paper we describe an approach that allows humans to access informatio...
A multidimensional database can be seen as a collection of multidimensional cubes, from which information is usually extracted by aggregation; aggregated data can be calculated ei...
Object-oriented database management systems are often motivated by their support for new emerging application areas such as computer-aided design and analysis systems. The object-o...
With mobile computing and powerful laptops, databases with sensitive data can be physically retrieved by malicious users who can employ techniques that were not previously thought...
Abstract. Rewriting of conjunctive queries using views has many applications in database and data integration. We investigate ways to improve performance of rewriting and propose a...