Background: Last years' mapping of diverse genomes has generated huge amounts of biological data which are currently dispersed through many databases. Integration of the info...
Francisco J. Lopez, Armando Blanco, Fernando Garci...
Recording the location of people using location-acquisition technologies, such as GPS, allows generating life patterns, which associate people to places they frequently visit. Con...
Semistructured data is not strictly typed like relational or object-oriented data and may be irregular or incomplete. It often arises in practice, e.g., when heterogeneous data so...
Serge Abiteboul, Jason McHugh, Michael Rys, Vasili...
The work reported here lays the foundations of data exchange in the presence of probabilistic data. This requires rethinking the very basic concepts of traditional data exchange, ...
The emergence of Web 2.0 has resulted in a huge amount of heterogeneous data that are contributed by a large number of users, engendering new challenges for data management and qu...