In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such that the amoun...
Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search and web integration systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional inf...
Feng Shao, Lin Guo, Chavdar Botev, Anand Bhaskar, ...
Geographic web search engines allow users to constrain and order search results in an intuitive manner by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search tec...
Although integrity constraints have long been used to maintain data consistency, there are situations in which they may not be enforced or satisfied. In this paper, we present Con...
Despite the widespread and growing use of asynchronous copies to improve scalability, performance and availability, this practice still lacks a firm semantic foundation. Applicati...