The B-tree is a fundamental external index structure that is widely used for answering one-dimensional range reporting queries. Given a set of N keys, a range query can be answere...
We formalize and study business process systems that are centered around "business artifacts", or simply "artifacts". This approach focuses on data records, kn...
Alin Deutsch, Richard Hull, Fabio Patrizi, Victor ...
A technique called user views has recently been proposed to focus user attention on relevant information in response to provenance queries over workflow executions [1, 2]: Given u...
Olivier Biton, Susan B. Davidson, Sanjeev Khanna, ...
Partitioning is an important step in several database algorithms, including sorting, aggregation, and joins. Partitioning is also fundamental for dividing work into equal-sized (o...
Schema mappings are declarative specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. In recent years, there has been an extensive study of schema mappings a...
We study containment and equivalence of (unions of) conjunctive queries on relations annotated with elements of a commutative semiring. Such relations and the semantics of positiv...
A Business Process (BP) consists of some business activities undertaken by one or more organizations in pursuit of some business goal. Tools for querying and analyzing BP specific...
In this paper we investigate algorithms and lower bounds for summarization problems over a single pass data stream. In particular we focus on histogram construction and K-center c...