For several reasons a database may not satisfy certain integrity constraints (ICs). However, most likely most of the information in it is still consistent with the ICs; and could ...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Loreto Bravo, Enrico Francon...
In fast OLAP applications it is often advantageous to provide approximate answers to range queries in order to achieve very high performances. A possible solution is to inquire sum...
Francesco Buccafurri, Filippo Furfaro, Domenico Sa...
Recently, several research efforts have addressed answering skyline queries efficiently over large datasets. However, this research lacks methods to compute these queries over un...
Mohamed E. Khalefa, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Justin J. L...
In this paper we review the history of systems for managing “Big Data” as well as today’s activities and architectures from the (perhaps biased) perspective of three “data...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...