Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...
A key advantage of scientific workflow systems over traditional scripting approaches is their ability to automatically record data and process dependencies introduced during workf...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. By processing a text database with information extraction systems, we can define a variety of structured "relati...
We propose a framework for integrating data from multiple relational sources into an XML document that both conforms to a given DTD and satisfies predefined XML constraints. The f...
Michael Benedikt, Chee Yong Chan, Wenfei Fan, Juli...
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...