The description, composition, and execution of even logically simple scientific workflows are often complicated by the need to deal with "messy" issues like heterogeneou...
Yong Zhao, James E. Dobson, Ian T. Foster, Luc Mor...
Historical information can be effectively preserved using XML and searched through powerful historical queries written in XQuery. Indeed, by storing the successive versions of a d...
Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Xin Zhou, Hyun J. Moo...
Information systems often require combining datasets available in different formats, and geographical information systems are no exception. While semantic technologies have been u...
This paper investigates the use of fuzzy logic mechanisms coming from the database community, namely graded inclusions, to model the information retrieval process. In this framewor...
Patrick Bosc, Vincent Claveau, Olivier Pivert, Lau...
This paper explores an inherent tension in modeling and querying uncertain data: simple, intuitive representations of uncertain data capture many application requirements, but the...
Anish Das Sarma, Omar Benjelloun, Alon Y. Halevy, ...