Combining the output from multiple retrieval sources over the same document collection is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retr...
When the available information is imperfect, it is often desirable to represent it in the database, so that it can be used to answer queries of interest as much as possible. The da...
The aim of this work is to provide a robust way for peers with heterogeneous data sources to exchange information in an unreliable network. We address this problem in two ways. Fi...
Scientific data of importance to biologists in the Humitn Genome Project resides not only in conventional da.tabases, but in structured files maintained in a number of different f...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Kyle Hart, G. Ch...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...