The performance of XML database queries can be greatly enhanced by rewriting them using materialized views. We study the problem of rewriting a query using materialized views, whe...
Mapping composition is a fundamental operation in metadata driven applications. Given a mapping over schemas 1 and 2 and a mapping over schemas 2 and 3, the composition problem is...
Philip A. Bernstein, Todd J. Green, Sergey Melnik,...
Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precise...
t programming techniques encourage abstraction and reuse through external linking. Some parts of a program, however, must use concrete, internally specified references, so a pure ...
SPFDs are a mechanism to express flexibility in Boolean networks. Introduced by Yamashita et al. in the context of FPGA synthesis [4], they were extended later to general combina...
Subarnarekha Sinha, Andreas Kuehlmann, Robert K. B...