If you have ever encountered a piece of highly domain-specific business software, you may have noticed that it was largely a graphical front-end to some relational database. You ...
The Semantic Web and its technologies become increasingly important. As more and more Semantic Web applications are being used, developing more stable Semantic Web applications be...
Scientific data are available through an increasing number of heterogeneous, independently evolving, sources. Although the sources themselves are independently evolving, the data ...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Frank Neven, Dieter Va...
2. ODB-QOPTIMIZER : the tool ODB-QOPTIMIZERis a ODMG 93 compliant tool for the schema validation and semantic query optimization. The approach is based on two fundamental ingredien...
Decision-support applications generate queries with complex predicates. We show how the factorization of complex query expressions exposes significant opportunities for exploiting...