We tackle the problem of disambiguating entities on the Web. We propose a user-driven scheme where graphs of entities ? represented by globally identifiable declarative artifacts ...
Hermann de Meer, Karl Aberer, Michael Jost, Parisa...
In this paper, we propose a new approach to automatically compose data providing Web services. Our approach exploits existing mature works done in data integration systems. Specif...
Mahmoud Barhamgi, Djamal Benslimane, Aris M. Oukse...
One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...
The problem of skyline computation has attracted considerable research attention. In the categorical domain the problem becomes more complicated, primarily due to the partially-or...
Nikos Sarkas, Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Anthony K. ...
Abstract. An object o of a database D is called a hot item, if there is a sufficiently large population of other objects in D that are similar to o. In other words, hot items are ...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...