Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system which uses the information available on the Web as an additional resource when searching for answers. Other externa...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
In this paper, we deal with the problem of determining the best possible physical implementation of an ETL workflow, given its logical-level description and an appropriate cost mo...
In association rules mining, current trend is witnessing the emergence of a growing number of works toward bringing negative items to light in the mined knowledge. However, the amo...
Ghada Gasmi, Sadok Ben Yahia, Engelbert Mephu Ngui...
Skyline queries have gained much attention as alternative query semantics with pros (e.g.low query formulation overhead) and cons (e.g.large control over result size). To overcome ...