Answering queries over ontologies is an important issue for the Semantic Web. Aggregate queries were widely studied for relational databases but almost no results are known for ag...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Ca...
At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Service Oriented Architectures are increasingly being used to achieve interoperability among heterogeneous systems. SOAs help developers to integrate different architectures in ord...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...