Motivated by many applications, top-k query is a fundamental operation in modern database systems. Technological advances have enabled the deployment of large-scale sensor networks...
Decision support applications involve complex queries on very large databases. Since response times should be small, query optimization is critical. Users typically view the data ...
Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ull...
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...
Empirical equations are an important class of regularities that can be discovered in databases. In this paper we concentrate on the role of equations as de nitions of attribute val...
Data exchange is the problem of transforming data structured under a schema (called source) into data structured under a different schema (called target). The emphasis of data exc...