Abstract. In order to effectively and quickly answer queries in environments with distributed RDF/OWL, we present a query optimization algorithm to identify the potentially relevan...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
Web searches tend to be short and ambiguous. It is therefore not surprising that Web query disambiguation is an actively researched topic. To provide a personalized experience for ...
Abstract. Pareto dominance plays an important role in diverse application domains such as economics and e-commerce, and it is widely being used in multicriteria decision making. In...
Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Apostolos Lyritsis, Ale...
A major hardness of processing searches issued in the form of keywords on structured data is the ambiguity problem. A set of keywords itself is not a complete piece of information...