Data is often collected over a distributed network, but in many cases, is so voluminous that it is impractical and undesirable to collect it in a central location. Instead, we mus...
We propose a class of constraints, referred to as conditional functional dependencies (CFDs), and study their applications in data cleaning. In contrast to traditional functional ...
Philip Bohannon, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei ...
The goal of a data integration system is to provide a uniform interface to a multitude of data sources. Given a user query formulated in this interface, the system translates it i...
Abstract. We propose a new approach for enhancing collaborative information retrieval by means of incorporating positional data for a location-aware personalized retrieval process....
Andreas Behrend, Frank Reichartz, Christian Dorau,...
The similarity join has become an important database primitive to support similarity search and data mining. A similarity join combines two sets of complex objects such that the r...