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...
This paper proposes an algorithm for causality inference based on a set of lexical knowledge bases that contain information about such items as event role, is-a hierarchy, relevan...
Key-Sun Choi, Jae-Ho Kim, Masaru Miyazaki, Jun Got...
The range nearest-neighbor (NN) query is an important query type in location-based services, as it can be applied to the case that an NN query has a spatial region, instead of a lo...
Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Joe Naps, Suman N...
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....
This paper deals with the problem of optimally matching two ordered sets of 3-D points by means of a rigid displacement. Contrary to the standard approach, where a sumof-squared-er...