Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...
Similarity joins have been studied as key operations in multiple application domains, e.g., record linkage, data cleaning, multimedia and video applications, and phenomena detectio...
Query processing in data integration occurs over network-bound, autonomous data sources. This requires extensions to traditional optimization and execution techniques for three re...
Zachary G. Ives, Daniela Florescu, Marc Friedman, ...
The integration of data produced and collected across autonomous, heterogeneous web services is an increasingly important and challenging problem. Due to the lack of global identi...
Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas...
Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...