Most search systems for querying large document collections---for example, web search engines---are based on well-understood information retrieval principles
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems based on a multidimensional view of data have found widespread use in business applications and are being used increasingly in non-sta...
Increasingly, biological data is being shared over the deep web. Many biological queries can only be answered by successively searching a number of distinct web-sites. This paper i...
Inductive queries are queries to an inductive database that generate a set of patterns in a data mining context. Inductive querying poses new challenges to database and data mining...
When the available information is imperfect, it is often desirable to represent it in the database, so that it can be used to answer queries of interest as much as possible. The da...