SQL extensions that allow queries to explicitly specify data quality requirements in terms of currency and consistency were proposed in an earlier paper. This paper develops a dat...
Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...
Because of practical limits in characterizing the safety profiles of therapeutic products prior to marketing, manufacturers and regulatory agencies perform post-marketing surveill...
David M. Fram, June S. Almenoff, William DuMouchel
Structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays have been successfully employed in many applications to locate content. However, they have been less effective in handling massive amounts o...
In emerging applications such as location-based services, sensor monitoring and biological management systems, the values of the database items are naturally imprecise. For these ...
Reynold Cheng, Lei Chen 0002, Jinchuan Chen, Xike ...