The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited knowle...
Abstract. Motivated by research on how topology may be a helpful foundation for building information modeling (BIM), a relational database version of the notions of chain complex a...
Sovereign information sharing allows autonomous entities to compute queries across their databases in such a way that nothing apart from the result is revealed. We describe an imp...
Rakesh Agrawal, Dmitri Asonov, Ramakrishnan Srikan...
The original PageRank algorithm for improving the ranking of search-query results computes a single vector, using the link structure of the Web, to capture the relative "impor...
—The vision of the Semantic Web has brought about new challenges at the intersection of web research and data management. One fundamental research issue at this intersection is t...