Abstract. The both-as-view (BAV) approach to data integration has the advantage of specifying mappings between schemas in a bidirectional manner, so that once a BAV mapping has bee...
A lot of research has been done on answering single-item queries, only a few have looked at answering multiple-item queries in data broadcast systems. The few that did, have propos...
Adesola Omotayo, Ken Barker, Moustafa A. Hammad, L...
Geographical information systems are more and more based on a DBMS with spatial extensions, which is also the case for the system described in this paper. The design and implementa...
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
The goal of a data integration system is to provide a uniform interface to a multitude of data sources. Given a user query formulated in this interface, the system translates it i...