The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
Many new applications that involve decision making need online (i.e., OLAP-styled) preference analysis with multidimensional boolean selections. Typical preference queries includes...
Materialized views have been found to be very effective at speeding up queries, and are increasingly being supported by commercial databases and data warehouse systems. However, w...
Hoshi Mistry, Prasan Roy, S. Sudarshan, Krithi Ram...
We introduce the notion of a data topology and the problem of topology search over databases. A data topology summarizes the set of all possible relationships that connect a given...
Entity linkage is central to almost every data integration and data cleaning scenario. Traditional techniques use some computed similarity among data structure to perform merges a...
Ekaterini Ioannou, Wolfgang Nejdl, Claudia Nieder&...