Clustering of large data bases is an important research area with a large variety of applications in the data base context. Missing in most of the research efforts are means for g...
Alexander Hinneburg, Daniel A. Keim, Markus Wawryn...
Intuitively, data management and data integration tools should be well-suited for exchanging information in a semantically meaningful way. Unfortunately, they suffer from two sign...
Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Dan Suciu, Igor T...
XML data integration tools are facing a variety of challenges for their efficient and effective operation. Among these is the requirement to handle a variety of inconsistencies or...
Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ting...
An organization's data records are often noisy because of transcription errors, incomplete information, lack of standard formats for textual data or combinations thereof. A f...
Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas...
Contemporary XPath query engines evaluate queries in time exponential in the sizes of input queries, a fact that has gone unnoticed for a long time. Recently, the first main
We present a technique for refining the design of relational storage for XML data based on XML key propagation. Three algorithms are presented: one checks whether a given function...
Susan B. Davidson, Wenfei Fan, Carmem S. Hara, Jin...
There has been interest recently in skyline queries, also called Pareto queries, on relational databases. Relational query languages do not support search for "best" tupl...
Jan Chomicki, Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Dongming ...
Modern distributed information systems cope with disconnection and limited bandwidth by using caches. In communicationconstrained situations, traditional demand-driven approaches ...
Mitch Cherniack, Eduardo F. Galvez, Michael J. Fra...
In moving object environments, it is infeasible for the database tracking the movement of objects to store the exact locations of objects at all times. Typically, the location of a...
Reynold Cheng, Sunil Prabhakar, Dmitri V. Kalashni...
We present a valid-time extension of SQL and investigate its efficient implementation on an Object-Relational database system. We propose an approach where temporal queries are ex...