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PODS
2006
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Principles of dataspace systems
The most acute information management challenges today stem from organizations relying on a large number of diverse, interrelated data sources, but having no means of managing the...
Alon Y. Halevy, Michael J. Franklin, David Maier
VLDB
2001
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
Approximate query mapping: Accounting for translation closeness
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
VLDB
2004
ACM
144views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
16 years 7 months ago
Preserving mapping consistency under schema changes
Abstract. In dynamic environments like the Web, data sources may change not only their data but also their schemas, their semantics, and their query capabilities.When a mapping is ...
Yannis Velegrakis, Renée J. Miller, Lucian Popa
PADL
2010
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Implementing Query Answering for Hybrid MKNF Knowledge Bases
Abstract. Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rule...
Ana Sofia Gomes, José Júlio Alferes,...
CIVR
2009
Springer
221views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Movie segmentation into scenes and chapters using locally weighted bag of visual words
Movies segmentation into semantically correlated units is a quite tedious task due to ”semantic gap”. Low-level features do not provide useful information about the semantical...
Vasileios Chasanis, Argyris Kalogeratos, Aristidis...