—This paper presents IQP - a novel approach to bridge the gap between usability of keyword search and expressiveness of database queries. IQP enables a user to start with an arbi...
Translating data and data access operations between applications and databases is a longstanding data management problem. We present a novel approach to this problem, in which the...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
As more sensitive data is captured in electronic form, security becomes more and more important. Data encryption is the main technique for achieving security. While in the past en...