While the information published in the form of XML-compliant documents keeps fast mounting up, efficient and effective query processing and optimization for XML have now become mor...
To deal with data uncertainty, existing probabilistic database systems augment tuples with attribute-level or tuple-level probability values, which are loaded into the database al...
Ravi Jampani, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Luis Leopoldo Per...
Modern scientific applications consume massive volumes of data produced by computer simulations. Such applications require new data management capabilities in order to scale to te...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares a national criteria and hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emission inventory with input from numerous states, local an...