Metadata are widely used in order to fully exploit information resources available on corporate intranets or the Internet. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) aims at facilit...
Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Kar...
Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
This paper is concerned with the transparent parallelisation of declarative database queries, based on theoretical principles. We have designed an entire database architecture sui...
Mohamad Afshar, J. Bates, Gavin M. Bierman, K. Moo...
We present a query-driven algorithm for the distributed indexing of large document collections within structured P2P networks. To cope with bandwidth consumption that has been ide...
Gleb Skobeltsyn, Toan Luu, Ivana Podnar Zarko, Mar...