Record linkage is the process of determining that two records refer to the same entity. A key subprocess is evaluating how well the individual fields, or attributes, of the recor...
Steven Minton, Claude Nanjo, Craig A. Knoblock, Ma...
View mechanisms, widely used in the relational databases, pose new questions in the object model which captures much more semantics. In this paper, we will focus on inheritance and...
When the time span of an event is imprecise, it can be represented by a fuzzy set, called a fuzzy time interval. In this paper, we propose a framework to represent, compute, and re...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
E-commerce has become an important part of business. In South Korea, the market size of online shopping malls was 13,460 billion Korean Won in 2006, and this figure keeps growing....
Object-oriented database OODB users bring with them large quantities of legacy data megabytes and even gigabytes. In addition, scienti c OODB users continually generate new data. ...