In this paper, we propose DBSampler, a query execution mechanism to answer "partial selection" queries in peerto-peer databases. A partial selection query is an arbitrar...
Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
Privacy is a serious concern when microdata need to be released for ad hoc analyses. The privacy goals of existing privacy protection approaches (e.g., -anonymity and -diversity) ...
Qing Zhang, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ting Y...
In this paper we address the problem of query answering and rewriting in global-as-view data integration systems, when key and inclusion dependencies are expressed on the global i...
PowerAqua1 is a Question Answering system, which takes as input a natural language query and is able to return answers drawn from relevant semantic resources found anywhere on the...
Vanessa Lopez, Victoria S. Uren, Marta Sabou, Enri...