A variety of integrity constraints have been studied for data cleaning. While these constraints can detect the presence of errors, they fall short of guiding us to correct the err...
Wenfei Fan, Jianzhong Li, Shuai Ma, Nan Tang, Weny...
We consider the problem of efficiently finding the top-k answers for join queries over web-accessible databases. Classical algorithms for finding top-k answers use branch-and-b...
Recent improvements in positioning technology make massive moving object data widely available. One important analysis is to find the moving objects that travel together. Existin...
The workflow models have been essentially operation-centric for many years, ignoring almost completely the data aspects. Recently, a new paradigm of data-centric workflows, call...
Bogdan Marinoiu, Serge Abiteboul, Pierre Bourhis, ...
Entity linkage is central to almost every data integration and data cleaning scenario. Traditional techniques use some computed similarity among data structure to perform merges a...
Ekaterini Ioannou, Wolfgang Nejdl, Claudia Nieder&...