An optimization query asks for one or more data objects that maximize or minimize some function over the data set. We propose a general class of queries, model-based optimization ...
For many data providers, the “crown jewels” of their business are the data that they have organized. If someone could copy their entire database, it would be a competitive cata...
Magesh Jayapandian, Brian D. Noble, James W. Micke...
The complexity, cost, and down-time currently created by the database schema evolution process is the source of incessant problems in the life of information systems and a major s...
Repairing a database means making the database consistent by applying changes that are as small as possible. Nearly all approaches to repairing have assumed deletions and insertion...
Planning under uncertainty involves two distinct sources of uncertainty: uncertainty about the effects of actions and uncertainty about the current state of the world. The most wi...