The Web consists of a large amount of unstructured information that hardly can be elaborated by automatic agents. In recent years, a considerable number of techniques for informat...
Leonardo Rigutini, Ernesto Di Iorio, Marco Ernande...
This paper presents a description of seven systems, which use database technology to both represent knowledge persistently and make scalable queries on it, in the Semantic Web con...
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...
Even when working on a well-modularized software system, programmers tend to spend more time navigating the code than working with it. This phenomenon arises because it is impossi...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...