Current approaches for answering queries with imprecise constraints require user-specific distance metrics and importance measures for attributes of interest - metrics that are ha...
Counting in general, and estimating the cardinality of (multi-) sets in particular, is highly desirable for a large variety of applications, representing a foundational block for ...
Nikos Ntarmos, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Weikum
In a number of emerging streaming applications, the data values that are produced have an associated time interval for which they are valid. A useful computation over such streami...
Michael D. Morse, Jignesh M. Patel, William I. Gro...
Extracting and integrating object information from the Web is of great significance for Web data management. The existing Web information extraction techniques cannot provide sati...
We present ACXESS (Access Control for XML with Enhanced Security Specifications), a system for specifying and enforcing enhanced security constraints on XML via virtual "secu...
Sriram Mohan, Jonathan Klinginsmith, Arijit Sengup...
In this paper we present a system for automatically integrating unstructured text into a multi-relational database using state-of-the-art statistical models for structure extracti...
A top-k query combines different rankings of the same set of objects and returns the k objects with the highest combined score according to an aggregate function. We bring to ligh...
Nikos Mamoulis, Kit Hung Cheng, Man Lung Yiu, Davi...
We present MiniCount, the first efficient sound and complete algorithm for finding maximally contained rewritings of conjunctive queries with count, using conjunctive views with c...