A recently introduced information-theoretic approach to analyzing redundancies in database design was used to justify normal forms like BCNF that completely eliminate redundancies...
We study the problem of automatically discovering semantic associations between schema elements, namely foreign keys. This problem is important in all applications where data sets...
Alexandra Rostin, Oliver Albrecht, Jana Bauckmann,...
The use of XML has become pervasive. It is used in a range of data storage and data exchange applications. In many cases such XML data is captured from users via forms or transform...
The constant increase of moving object data imposes the need for modeling, processing, and mining trajectories, in order to find and understand the patterns behind these data. Ex...
The strong dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, coupled with the diversity of peer vocabularies, makes query processing in peer database systems a very challenging task. In this pape...