Data exchange is the problem of taking data structured under a source schema and creating an instance of a target schema. Given a source instance, there may be many solutions ? ta...
In heterogeneous data warehousing environments, autonomous data sources are integrated into a materialized integrated database. The schemas of the data sources and the integrated ...
Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...
In this paper, we present the use of semantic caching in the environment of schema-based super-peer networks. Different from traditional caching, semantic caching allows the answe...
Independence analysis is the problem of determining whether an update affects the result of a query, e.g. a constraint or materialized view. We develop a new, modular framework fo...