In this paper, we suggest that it should be possible to come closer to the Semantic Web goals by enhancing the ontology paradigm and, in particular, by supplementing the ‘tradit...
A number of execution strategies for parallel evaluation of multi-join queries have been proposed in the literature; their performance was evaluated by simulation. In this paper w...
Annita N. Wilschut, Jan Flokstra, Peter M. G. Aper...
Many advanced data management operations (e.g., incremental maintenance, trust assessment, debugging schema mappings, keyword search over databases, or query answering in probabil...
Grigoris Karvounarakis, Zachary G. Ives, Val Tanne...
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...
One of the main limitations in using ontologies in modern information systems is due to the fact that the design and maintenance of ontologies is a complex activity that requires ...