Keyword search has traditionally focussed on retrieving documents in ranked order, given simple keyword queries. Similarly, work on keyword queries on structured data has focussed...
Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...
Many users and applications require the integration of semi-structured data from autonomous, heterogeneous Web sources. Over the last years mediator systems have emerged that use d...
Authentication is increasingly relevant to data management. Data is being outsourced to untrusted servers and clients want to securely update and query their data. For example, in ...
Data integration from multiple autonomous data sources has emerged as an important practical problem. The key requirement for such data integration is that owners of such data nee...
Amr El Abbadi, Aziz Gulbeden, Divyakant Agrawal, F...