Ranking queries report the top-K results according to a user-defined scoring function. A widely used scoring function is the weighted summation of multiple scores. Often times, u...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinen...
In relational database systems a combination of privileges and views is employed to limit a user’s access and to hide non-public data. The data privacy problem is to decide wheth...
This paper investigates how the vision of the Semantic Web can be carried over to the realm of email. We introduce a general notion of semantic email, in which an email message co...
Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Alon Y. Halevy, Henry...
Peer-to-peer databases are becoming prevalent on the Internet for distribution and sharing of documents, applications, and other digital media. The problem of answering large scal...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Va...
Functional testing of a query language is a challenging task in practice. In order to reveal errors in the query processing functionality, it is necessary to verify the actual res...
Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo, Angel Sa...