The Web contains a vast amount of text that can only be queried using simple keywords-in, documentsout search queries. But Web text often contains structured elements, such as hot...
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...
An inference problem exists in a multilevel database if knowledge of some objects in the database allows information with a higher security level to be inferred. Many such inferen...
Event based analysis plays an important role in reducing the latency of information delivery in an event driven world. Also, the perception of an ‘event’ by a user is at a hig...
Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...