A database application differs form regular applications in that some of its inputs may be database queries. The program will execute the queries on a database and may use any re...
The objective of this paper is to investigate the problems related to the extensional integration of information sources. In particular, we propose an approach for managing incons...
In the logical approach to information retrieval (IR), retrieval is considered as uncertain inference. Whereas classical IR models are based on propositional logic, we combine Dat...
A real-time database is composed of real-time objects whose values remain valid only within their validity intervals. Each object in the database models a real world entity. The f...
Approximate query processing has emerged as a costeffective approach for dealing with the huge data volumes and stringent response-time requirements of today's decision-suppo...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Minos N. Garofalakis, Rajeev ...