Data allocation is a key performance factor for parallel database systems (PDBS). This holds especially for data warehousing environments where huge amounts of data and complex an...
: Schema matching is the task of finding semantic correspondences between elements of two schemas, which plays a key role in many database applications. In this paper, we cast the ...
Zhi Zhang, Pengfei Shi, Haoyang Che, Yong Sun, Jun...
Multi-valued dependencies (MVDs) are an important class of constraints that is fundamental for relational database design. Although modern applications increasingly require the su...
Integrity checking is an essential means for the preservation of the intended semantics of a deductive database. Incrementality is the only feasible approach to checking and can be...
With the growth of the Web, there has been a rapid increase in the number of users who need to access online databases without having a detailed knowledge of the schema or of quer...