Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
Web services are software artifacts that can be accessed over the Internet. They can be seen as pay-per-view functionalities that are exposed by some service providers. If there a...
With the ever expanding Web and the information published on it, effective tools for managing such data and presenting information to users based on their needs are becoming nece...
Utility elicitation is an important component of many applications, such as decision support systems and recommender systems. Such systems query users about their preferences and ...
— Finding the k nearest neighbors (kNN) of a query point, or a set of query points (kNN-Join) are fundamental problems in many application domains. Many previous efforts to solve...