ct Information Integration is among the most important fields in information management. The problem of integrating data from diverse, possibly heterogeneous data sources is ubiqu...
Ioana Manolescu, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann
Whereas traditional databases manage only deterministic information, many applications that use databases involve uncertain data. This paper presents a Probabilistic Tree Data Bas...
With the advent of XML as a standard for data representation and exchange on the Internet, storing and querying XML data becomes more and more important. Several XML query languag...
Data outsourcing is an emerging paradigm that allows users and companies to give their (potentially sensitive) data to external servers that then become responsible for their stor...
Pierangela Samarati, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimerc...
The fundamental difference between standard information retrieval and XML retrieval is the unit of retrieval. In traditional IR, the unit of retrieval is fixed: it is the comple...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...