This paper presents an approach to answering queries over an ontology modelled using a description logic. The ontology acts as a global schema, providing a declarative description...
Martin Peim, Enrico Franconi, Norman W. Paton, Car...
We consider spatio-temporal databases supporting spatial objects with continuously changing position and extent, termed moving objects databases. We formally define a data model f...
Abstract. Constraint databases that can be described by boolean combinations of polynomial inequalities over the reals have received ample research attention. In particular, the ex...
The existing approaches of keyword search over relational databases always identify the relationships between tuples on the fly, which are rather inefficient as such relational rel...
This paper proposes design concepts that allow the conception, understanding and development of complex technical structures for open distributed systems. The proposed concepts ar...