In this paper, I discuss ambiguous loss, why it is so traumatizing, what to do to lower the distress when someone disappears without a trace, and why a tribute is more appropriate...
This short paper is intended to describe for the layman why Jim Gray won so many awards, culminating in his being selected to receive the 1998 ACM Turing Award, arguably the "...
This article proposes a core query algebra for probabilistic databases. In essence, this core is part of the query languages of most probabilistic database systems proposed so far...
Jim Gray spent a decade as a student and researcher at Berkeley. In action, he is remembered for his breath, his depth, and his generosity. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.1 ...
We introduce the Spicy system, a novel approach to the problem of automatically selecting the best mappings among two data sources. Known schema mapping algorithms rely on value c...