Abstract. The conventional use of databases is commonly restricted to the retrieval of factual data in the form of tuples or records. However most databases also contain metadata i...
While standardization efforts for XML query languages have been progressing, researchers and users increasingly focus on the database technology that has to deliver on the new cha...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Florian Waas, Martin L. Ker...
This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...
Relational data exchange deals with translating a relational database instance over some source schema into a relational database instance over some target schema, according to a ...
Current information retrieval (IR) approaches do not formally capture the explicit meaning of a keyword query but provide a comfortable way for the user to specify information need...
Thanh Tran, Philipp Cimiano, Sebastian Rudolph, Ru...