Real-world data -- especially when generated by distributed measurement infrastructures such as sensor networks -- tends to be incomplete, imprecise, and erroneous, making it impo...
Traditional databases have focused on the issue of reducing I/O cost as it is the bottleneck in many operations. As databases become increasingly accepted in areas such as Geograp...
Nagender Bandi, Chengyu Sun, Amr El Abbadi, Divyak...
: Managing image data in a database system using metadata has been practiced since the last two decades. However, describing an image fully and adequately with metadata is practica...
The Strudel system applies concepts from database management systems to the process of building Web sites. Strudel’s key idea is separating the management of the site’s data, t...
Manually querying search engines in order to accumulate a large body of factual information is a tedious, error-prone process of piecemeal search. Search engines retrieve and rank...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, S...