The task of similarity search is widely used in various areas of computing, including
multimedia databases, data mining, bioinformatics, social networks, etc. In fact, retrieval of …

In a variety of emerging applications one needs to decide whether a graph G matches
another Gp, ie, whether G has a topological structure similar to that of Gp. The traditional …

The Semantic Web (SW) deployment is now a realization and the amount of semantic
annotations is ever increasing thanks to several initiatives that promote a change in the …

When integrating data from autonomous sources, exact matches of data items that represent
the same real-world object often fail due to a lack of common keys. Yet in many cases …

Background The today's public database infrastructure spans a very large collection of
heterogeneous biological data, opening new opportunities for molecular biology, bio …

In data integration applications, a join matches elements that are common to two data
sources. Often, however, elements are represented slightly different in each source, so an …

The increase in the volume and heterogeneity of semistructured data based application
scenarios has demanded for next-generation methods that are able to effectively couple …

In data integration applications, a join matches elements that are common to two data
sources. Since elements are represented slightly different in each source, an approximate …

The categorization of our environment into feature types is an essential prerequisite for
cartography, geographic information retrieval, routing applications, spatial decision support …

XML has become a widespread format for data exchange over the Internet. The current state
of the art in querying XML data is represented by XPath and XQuery, both of which define …