The question whether a given set of views, defined by queries, can be used to answer another query, arises in several contexts such as query optimization, data integration and se...
We study the problem of schema evolution in the RDF data model. RDF and the RDFS schema language are W3C standards for flexibly modeling and sharing data on the web. Although sch...
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
A substantial subset of the web data follows some kind of underlying structure. Nevertheless, HTML does not contain any schema or semantic information about the data it represents...
Clustering is an essential data mining task with numerous applications. However, data in most real-life applications are high-dimensional in nature, and the related information of...