The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
Given a set of d dimensional objects, a skyline query finds the objects ("skyline") that are not dominated by others. However, skylines do not always provide useful query...
Text corpora are often enhanced by additional metadata which relate real-world entities, with each document in which such entities are discussed. Such relationships are typically ...
Albert Angel, Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Nick ...
In uncertain and probabilistic databases, confidence values (or probabilities) are associated with each data item. Confidence values are assigned to query results based on combinin...
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is a group of techniques that analyzes the visual features (such as color, shape, texture) of an example image or image subregion to find simi...