In this Science-Fiction Prototyping article, I present an imaginative forward look at how artificial intelligence and virtual environments might change the nature of future educati...
SIGMOD 2008 was the first database conference that offered to test submitters' programs against their data to verify the experiments published. This paper discusses the ratio...
Ioana Manolescu, Loredana Afanasiev, Andrei Arion,...
This article serves three purposes. First of all, to introduce dbjobs, the database of database jobs, and also describe its functionality and architecture. Secondly, to present st...
Abstract. Consistent query answering (CQA) is an approach to querying inconsistent databases without repairing them first. This invited talk introduces the basics of CQA, and disc...
Increasingly, online systems depend on user contributions such as posts, ratings, tags, and comments. Many of these systems wish to encourage broader participation or the contribut...