Conference Proceedings

  1. Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance , T. J. Green, G. Karvounarakis, Z. Ives, V. Tannen, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
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  2. Provenance Semirings , T. J. Green, G. Karvounarakis, V. Tannen, ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) 2007 , Beijing, China, June 2007.
    (pdf) (presentation slides)
  3. Benchmarking Database Representations of RDF/S Stores, Y. Theoharis, V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2005, Galway, Ireland, November 6-10, 2005.
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  4. RQL: A Declarative Query Language for RDF, G. Karvounarakis, S. Alexaki, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, Michel Scholl, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 7-11, 2002.
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  5. Querying RDF Descriptions for Community Web Portals, G. Karvounarakis, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, S. Alexaki, 17ièmes Journees Bases de Donnees Avancees (BDA) 2001, pp. 133-144, Agadir, Morocco, October 29 - November 2, 2001.
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  6. Submission and Repository Management of Digital Libraries Using WWW, G. Karvounarakis, S. Kapidakis, at TERENA Networking Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2000.
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Journals

  1. Optimizing Semantic Web Queries Using Labeling Schemes,V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, D. Plexousakis, M. Scholl, S. Tourtounis, at Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 1 (2004) pp. 207-228, Elsevier Science.
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  2. Querying the Semantic Web with RQL, G. Karvounarakis, A. Magkanaraki, S. Alexaki, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, M. Scholl, K. Tolle, at Computer Networks and ISDN Systems Journal, Vol. 42(5), August 2003, pp. 617-640, Elsevier Science.
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  3. Submission and Repository Management of Digital Libraries Using WWW, G. Karvounarakis, S. Kapidakis, at Computer Networks and ISDN Systems Journal,Vol. 34(6), December 2000, pp. 861-872, Elsevier Science.
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Book Chapters

  1. RQL: A Functional Query Language for RDF, G. Karvounarakis, A. Magkanaraki, S. Alexaki, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, M. Scholl, K. Tolle, at The Functional Approach to Data Management: Modelling, Analyzing and Integrating Heterogeneous Data, P.M.D.Gray, L.Kerschberg, P.J.H.King, A.Poulovassilis (eds.), LNCS Series, Springer-Verlag
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  2. Datalog, Grigoris Karvounarakis, in Encyclopedia of Database Systems, eds. Ling Liu and M. Tamer ĻOzsu. Springer-Verlag, to appear.
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Workshop Proceedings

  1. Bidirectional Mappings for Data and Update Exchange, G. Karvounarakis, Z. G. Ives 11th International Workshop on Web and Databases (WebDB 2008), in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2008, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
    (pdf) (presentation slides)
  2. The ICS-FORTH SWIM: A Powerful Semantic Web Integration Middleware, V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, I. Koffina, G. Kokkinidis, A. Magkanaraki, D. Plexousakis, G. Serfiotis, and V. Tannen International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases (SWDB) 2003, in conjunction with VLDB 2003, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin, Germany, September 7-8, 2003.
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  3. Beyond Discrete E-Services: Composing Session-oriented Services in Telecommunications, V. Christophides, R. Hull, G. Karvounarakis, A. Kumar, G. Tong, M. Xiong, 2nd Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, in conjunction with VLDB 2001, Rome, Italy, 2001.
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  4. The Syntactic Web: Syntax and Semantics on the Web, J. Robie, L. M. Garshol, S. Newcomb, M. Biezinski, M. Fuchs, L. Miller, D. Brickley, V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, at Extreme Markup Languages, Montreal, Quebec, August 2001, Canada & Markup Languages: Theory & Practice Volume 3, Number 4, Fall, 2001, pages 411-440
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  5. On Storing Voluminous RDF Descriptions: The case of Web Portal Catalogs, S. Alexaki, V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, D. Plexousakis, International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB) 2001 - in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD/PODS, Santa Barbara, CA, May 24-25, 2001.
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  6. The ICS-FORTH RDFSuite: Managing Voluminous RDF Description Bases, S. Alexaki, V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, D. Plexousakis, K. Tolle, International Workshop on the Semantic Web (SemWeb) 2001, in conjunction with WWW 2001, pp. 1-13, Hongkong, May 1, 2001.
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  7. Declarative Languages for Querying Portal Catalogs, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, G. Karvounarakis, S. Alexaki, DELOS Workshop: Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries, pp. 115-120, Zurich, Switzerland, December 11-12, 2000.
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  8. Managing RDF Metadata for Community Webs, S. Alexaki, V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, D. Plexousakis, K. Tolle, Bernd Amann, Irini Fundulaki, Michel Scholl, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, International Workshop on the World Wide Web and Conceptual Modeling (WCM) 2000 in conjunction with International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER) 2000, pp. 140-151, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 9-12, 2000.
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Posters/Demos

  1. Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing, T. J. Green, G. Karvounarakis, N. Taylor, O. Biton, Z. G. Ives, V. Tannen, in Demonstration Session of ACM SIGMOD 2007, Beijing, China, June, 2007.
    (pdf) (poster)
  2. The ICS-FORTH RDFSuite: High-level Scalable Tools for the Semantic Web, S. Alexaki, N. Athanasis, V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, A. Magkanaraki, D. Plexousakis, and K. Tolle, Poster Session of WWW 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 8, 2002.
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  3. Submission and Repository Management Tools for Digital Libraries, with WWW Interface: a Demo Proposal, S. Kapidakis, G. Karvounarakis, Demonstration at the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), pp. 495, Paris, France, September 1999.
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Magazines

  1. The Orchestra Collaborative Data Sharing System , Zachary G. Ives, Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Nicholas E. Taylor, Val Tannen, to appear in SIGMOD Record 37(3): 26-32 (2008)
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  2. Provenance and Data Synchronization , J. N. Foster, G. Karvounarakis, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 30(4): 13-21, December 2007
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  3. The ICS-FORTH Semantic Web Integration Middleware (SWIM), V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, A. Magkanaraki, D. Plexousakis and V. Tannen, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 26(4): 11-18, December 2003.
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  4. The ICS-FORTH RDFSuite: High-level Scalable Tools for the Semantic Web, S. Alexaki, N. Athanasis, V. Christophides, G. Karvounarakis, A. Magkanaraki, D. Plexousakis and K. Tolle, ERCIM News, No. 51, October 2002.
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  5. RQL: A Declarative Query Language for RDF, G. Karvounarakis, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, D-Lib Magazine, 7(12), December 2001.
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Technical Reports

  1. Conjunctive queries and mappings with unequalities University of Pennsylvania Technical Report MS-CIS-08-37, 2008.
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  2. Ontology Storage and Querying, A. Magkanaraki, G. Karvounarakis, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, T. Anh, ICS-FORTH Technical Report No 308, April 2002.
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  3. Querying Semistructured (Meta)Data and Schemas on the Web: The case of RDF/RDFS, G. Karvounarakis, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, ICS-FORTH Technical Report No 296, February 2000.
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Theses

  1. Provenance in Collaborative Data Sharing, G. Karvounarakis, PhD Dissertation, Computer and Information Science Department, Univ. of Pennsylvania (2009)
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  2. Querying RDF metadata for Community Web Portals, G. Karvounarakis, Master's Thesis, Computer Science Department, Univ. of Crete (2000) (Available in Greek only)
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  3. Submission and Repository Management of Digital Libraries Using WWW, G. Karvounarakis, Diploma Thesis, Computer Science Department, Univ. of Crete (1998) (Available in Greek only)
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Other Publications

  1. The RQL v1.5 Technical Specification, G. Karvounarakis, Deliverable D3.2.2 for EU project cf Mesmuses (IST-2000-26074), February 2002
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  2. The RQL v1.5 User Manual, G. Karvounarakis, V. Christophides, Deliverable D3.2.1 for EU project cf Mesmuses (IST-2000-26074), February 2002
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  3. Contributor in: The RQL v1.5 Browsing Interface , N. Athanasis, Deliverable D3.2.3 for EU project cf Mesmuses (IST-2000-26074), February 2002
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  4. Contributor in: Community Webs (C-Webs): Technological Assessment and System Architecture, V. Christophides, Deliverable D5 for EU project C-WEB (IST-1999-13479), September 2000
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Other Unpublished Documents and Presentations

  1. Towards Automatic Verification of Coordinated Telecommunication Services Unpublished manuscript, March 2005.
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  2. Answering queries across mappings (survey paper), G. Karvounarakis, WPE-II critical review, June 2005.
    (pdf) (ppt slides)
  3. Verification of Data-Intensive Web Services (survey paper), G. Karvounarakis, class project for CIS650, December 2004.
    (pdf) (ppt slides) (pdf slides)
  4. Specification and Verification of Data-driven Web Services, A. Deutsch, L. Sui, V. Vianu, presentation for CIS650, November 2004.
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  5. Lazy Query Evaluation for Active XML, S. Abiteboul, O. Benjelloun, B. Cautis, I. Manolescu, T. Milo, M. Preda, presentation for CIS650, October 2004.
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  6. Conversation Specification: A New Approach to Design and Analysis of E-Service Composition, T. Bultan, X. Fu, R. Hull, J, Su, presentation at DB group seminar, February 2004.
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