s exhibits diversity in the real world, mental abstraction world, document world, and machine world. Studying mappings between different forms of semantics helps unveil the uniform...
Many web databases can be seen as providing partial and overlapping information about entities in the world. To answer queries effectively, we need to integrate the information ab...
Ravi Gummadi, Anupam Khulbe, Aravind Kalavagattu, ...
with a full abstract specification of the data-types involved and a multi-level architecture similar to that of a DBMS. A related question is the kind of model that is most suitabl...
In a context considering in a unique framework all the relations in a database, by means of the notion of global consistency, independent database schemes allow enforcement of con...
The paper presents new developments in an extension of Codd’s relational model of data. The extension consists in equipping domains of attribute values with a similarity relation...