An extended abstract of this paper appeared in Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGACT-SIGMODSIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems [1]. 2 E-mail: pankaÄcs.duke.edu; httpÂ...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Lars Arge, Jeff Erickson, Paolo...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Abstract. Extracting information automatically from texts for database representation requires previously well-grouped phrases so that entities can be separated adequately. This pr...
Today, result sets of skyline queries are unmanageable due to their exponential growth with the number of query predicates. In this paper we discuss the incremental re-computation ...
Abstract. Of particular concern in requirements engineering is the selection of requirements to implement in the next release of a system. To that end, there has been recent work o...
Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos, Alexander Borgida,...