Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
Infomaster is an information integration system. It provides integrated access to distributed, heterogeneous information sources, thus giving its users the illusion of a centraliz...
Modern database systems increasingly make use of networked storage. This storage can be in the form of SAN's or in the form of shared-nothing nodes in a cluster. One type of a...
Traditional query processors generate full, accurate query results, either in batch or in pipelined fashion. We argue that this strict model is too rigid for exploratory queries o...
Avionics data at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) consists of distributed, unmanaged, and heterogeneous information tha...