Virtual machine technologies offer simple and practical mechanisms to address many manageability problems in database systems. For example, these technologies allow for server con...
Umar Farooq Minhas, Jitendra Yadav, Ashraf Aboulna...
—Equivalent of €5 billion of wood raw material is going to waste in Europe. The reason is that information regarding the raw material is not available throughout the system. An...
Abstract— With XML becoming a standard for data representation and exchange, we can expect to see large scale repositories and warehouses of XML data. In order for users to under...
— Secure Semantic Web applications, particularly those involving access control, are typically focused at the application-domain only, rather than taking a more holistic approach...
— The integration of heterogeneous data sources is one of the main challenges within the area of data engineering. Due to the absence of an independent and universal benchmark fo...
We formulate three intuitive semantic properties for topk queries in probabilistic databases, and propose GlobalTopk query semantics which satisfies all of them. We provide a dyn...
— The database research community has recently recognized the usefulness of skyline query. As an extension of existing database operator, the skyline query is valuable for multi-...
Dalie Sun, Sai Wu, Jianzhong Li, Anthony K. H. Tun...