METU INteroperable Database System (MIND) is a multidatabase system that aims at achieving interoperability among heterogeneous, federated DBMSs. MIND architecture is based on OMG...
The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and the advances in automated information extraction from Web pages enable the construction of large knowledge ba...
Most RDF query languages allow for graph structure search through a conjunction of triples which is typically processed using join operations. A key factor in optimizing joins is ...
Angela Maduko, Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit P. Sheth, Pau...
Structural summaries are data structures that preserve all structural features of XML documents in a compact form. We investigate the applicability of the most popular summaries a...
Authenticated dictionaries allow users to send lookup requests to an untrusted server and get authenticated answers. Persistent authenticated dictionaries (PADs) add queries agains...