Approximate data matching applications typically use similarity functions to quantify the degree of likeness between two data instances. There are several similarity functions ava...
Carlos A. Heuser, Francisco N. A. Krieser, Viviane...
This presentation shows how the joint efforts of the national libraries of Europe over the past 20 years have paved the way for the creation of a European Digital Library; currentl...
Two-way alternating automata were introduced by Vardi in order to study the satisfiability problem for the modal µ-calculus extended with backwards modalities. In this paper, we ...
Several activities related to semantically annotated resources can be enabled by a notion of similarity, spanning from clustering to retrieval, matchmaking and other forms of induc...
Peers in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems use conjunctive queries as a way of controlling query cost in the absence of information about the behavior of other peers. Conjunctive ...