Over recent years, "Internet-able" applications have been used to support domains where distributed functionality is essential. This flexibility is also pertinent in situ...
Despite the recent proliferation of work on semistructured data models, there has been little work to date on supporting uncertainty in these models. In this paper, we propose a m...
The exponential growth of the web and the extended use of database management systems in widely distributed information systems has brought to the fore the need for seamless interc...
In many database applications, there are opportunities for multiple top-N queries to be evaluated at the same time. Often it is more cost effective to evaluate multiple such queri...
Advanced instruments in a variety of scientific domains are collecting massive amounts of data that must be postprocessed and organized to support research activities. Astronomers...