Access. permissions in a data warehouse are currently managed in a separate world from the sources' policies. The consequences are inconsistencies, slow response to change, a...
We introduce a new model for semantic annotation and retrieval from image databases. The new model is based on a probabilistic formulation that poses annotation and retrieval as c...
We consider the problem of selecting views and indexes that minimize the evaluation costs of the important queries under an upper bound on the disk space available for storing the ...
Maxim Kormilitsin, Rada Chirkova, Yahya Fathi, Mat...
In the recent years, the Web has been rapidly “deepened” with the prevalence of databases online. On this deep Web, many sources are structured by providing structured query i...
We describe a scheme to fragment and distribute centralized databases. ’ The problem is motivated by trends towards down-sizing and reorganization, reflecting actual, often dist...