Abstract. The conventional use of databases is commonly restricted to the retrieval of factual data in the form of tuples or records. However most databases also contain metadata i...
Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...
Structured P2P overlays supporting standard database functionalities are a popular choice for building large-scale distributed data management systems. In such systems, estimating...
Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Michael Ha&szli...
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, ...
Information integration systems provide a uniform query interface to a set of sources. One of the key challenges for an information integration system is to provide maximally comp...