The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
Relational data exchange deals with translating a relational database instance over some source schema into a relational database instance over some target schema, according to a ...
Queries to data warehouses often involve hundreds of complex aggregations over large volumes of data, and so it is infeasible to compute these queries by scanning the data sources ...
Geographic information systems (GIS) must support large georeferenced data sets. Due to the size of these data sets finding exact answers to spatial queries can be very time consum...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Scott T. Leutenegger
The rapid adoption of XML as the standard for data representation and exchange foreshadows a massive increase in the amounts of XML data collected, maintained, and queried over th...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....