Structural join operations are central to evaluating queries against XML data, and are typically responsible for consuming a lion's share of the query processing time. Thus, ...
Abstract. Developing ontologies is not an easy task and often the resulting ontologies are not consistent or complete. Such ontologies, although often useful, also lead to problems...
Abstract. While there has been a great deal of work on the development of reasoning algorithms for expressive description logics, in most cases only Tbox reasoning is considered. I...
fe. Althoughthose legal concepts are abstract in the sense that there always exist possibilities to interpret them in various ways, lawyers seem to understand themas real things at...
Abstract. State of the art formalisms for distributed ontology integration provide ways to express semantic relations between concepts belonging to different ontologies. However, t...