This paper sums up lessons learned from a sequence of cooperative design workshops where end users were enabled to design mobile systems through scenario building, role playing, a...
Massive amounts of useful data are stored and processed in ad hoc formats for which common tools like parsers, printers, query engines and format converters are not readily availa...
Artem Gleyzer, David Walker, Kathleen Fisher, Mary...
Record matching is the task of identifying records that match the same real world entity. This is a problem of great significance for a variety of business intelligence applicatio...
Many websites provide form-like interfaces which allow users to execute search queries on the underlying hidden databases. In this paper, we explain the importance of protecting s...
Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, Gautam Das, Surajit Cha...
Good cardinality estimates are critical for generating good execution plans during query optimization. Complex predicates, correlations between columns, and user-defined functions...