Given a set of multidimensional data points, skyline query retrieves a set of data points that are not dominated by any other points. This query is useful for multi-preference ana...
Ken C. K. Lee, Baihua Zheng, Huajing Li, Wang-Chie...
In this paper, we deal with the problem of performing what-if analysis for changes that occur in the schema/structure of the data warehouse We abstract software modules, queries, r...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Si...
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
Efficient query processing in P2P-based Web integration systems poses a variety of challenges resulting from the strict decentralization and limited knowledge. As a special probl...
A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...