As peer-to-peer (P2P) networks become more familiar to the database community, intense interest has built up in using their scalability and resilience properties to scale database...
— This paper presents a software component, the plan database, which provides the needed services to define plans, execute them and more importantly adapt them during execution....
The prevalence of free text search in web search engines has inspired recent interest in keyword search on relational databases. Whereas relational queries formally specify matchi...
Entity Resolution (ER) is an important real world problem that has attracted significant research interest over the past few years. It deals with determining which object descript...
Zhaoqi Chen, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotr...
Until recently, most data integration techniques involved central components, e.g., global schemas, to enable transparent access to heterogeneous databases. Today, however, with t...