In spite of the many decades of progress in database research, surprisingly scientists in the life sciences community still struggle with inefficient and awkward tools for queryin...
Star queries are the most prevalent kind of queries in data warehousing, OLAP and business intelligence applications. Thus, there is an imperative need for efficiently processing ...
Nikos Karayannidis, Aris Tsois, Timos K. Sellis, R...
Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...
All existing proposals for querying XML (e.g., XQuery) rely on a pattern-specification language that allows (1) path navigation and branching through the label structure of the XM...
In this paper, we consider techniques for disseminating dynamic data--such as stock prices and real-time weather information--from sources to a set of repositories. We focus on th...
Shetal Shah, Krithi Ramamritham, Prashant J. Sheno...