The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
Faced with growing knowledge management needs, enterprises are increasingly realizing the importance of seamlessly integrating critical business information distributed across bot...
Prasan Roy, Mukesh K. Mohania, Bhuvan Bamba, Shree...
At the heart of all garbage collectors lies the process of identifying and processing reference fields within an object. Despite its key role, and evidence of many different impl...
Robin Garner, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampto...
A recurring manual task in data integration, ontology alignment or model management is finding mappings between complex meta data structures. In order to reduce the manual effor...
We discuss the use of database met hods for data mining. Recently impressive results have been achieved for some data mining problems using highly specialized and clever data stru...
Marcel Holsheimer, Martin L. Kersten, Heikki Manni...