– With the World Wide Web popularity the information retrieval area has a new challenge intending to retrieve information resources by their meaning by using a knowledge base. No...
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
The design and implementation of advanced personalized database applications requires a preference-driven approach. Representing preferences as strict partial orders is a good cho...
We examine the power of incremental evaluation systems that use an SQL-like language for maintaining recursively-de ned views. We show that recursive queries such as transitive clo...
Abstract—After decades of effort working on database performance, the quality and the usability of database systems have received more attention in recent years. In particular, t...