Abstract. Ontologies are pervading many areas of knowledge representation and management. To date, most research efforts have been spent on the development of sufficiently express...
Incomplete information arises naturally in numerous data management applications. Recently, several researchers have studied query processing in the context of incomplete informat...
With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute s...
The notion of RDF Named Graphs has been proposed in order to assign provenance information to data described using RDF triples. In this paper, we argue that named graphs alone can...
: Database-internal statistics are very important for cost-based query optimizers. Only if an optimizer has accurate statistical information about data, it provides excellent execu...