Modern enterprise applications are forced to deal with unreliable, inconsistent and imprecise information. Probabilistic databases can model such data naturally, but SQL query eva...
Probabilistic databases have received considerable attention recently due to the need for storing uncertain data produced by many real world applications. The widespread use of pr...
Current approaches to K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) search in mobile sensor networks require certain kind of indexing support. This index could be either a centralized spatial index or...
With the advent of XML as the de facto language for data publishing and exchange, scalable distribution of XML data to large, dynamic populations of consumers remains an important...
This paper investigates the view update problem for XML views published from relational data. We consider (possibly) recursively defined XML views, compressed into DAGs and stored...
We study the problem of answering queries posed on virtual views of XML documents, a problem commonly encountered when enforcing XML access control and integrating data. We approa...
It has long been recognized that multi-stream operators, such as union and join, often have to wait idly in a temporarily blocked state, as a result of skews between the timestamp...
Yijian Bai, Hetal Thakkar, Haixun Wang, Carlo Zani...
Google and other products have revolutionized the way we search for information on the Internet, Intranet, and on our desktop. However, the current generation of search products d...
Persistence is a common requirement in many applications. In existing systems, persistence is added to an application at either compile or deployment time by using a variety of me...