The class of unions of conjunctive queries (UCQ) has been shown to be particularly well-behaved for data exchange; its certain answers can be computed in polynomial time (in terms...
Traffic telematics comprises services like traffic information, navigation, and emergency call services. Providers of such services need large spatial databases especially for the ...
In many modern applications such as biometric identification systems, sensor networks, medical imaging, geology, and multimedia databases, the data objects are not described exact...
In this article, we propose a new approach for querying and indexing a database of trees with specific applications to XML datasets. Our approach relies on representing both the q...
Abstract. Controlled languages (CLs) are ambiguity-free subsets of natural languages such as English offering a good trade-off between the formal rigor of ontology and query langua...