Many web databases are hidden behind form-based interfaces which are not always easy-to-use on mobile devices because of limitations such as small screen sizes, trickier text entr...
Automatically generating sufficient database states is imperative to reduce human efforts in testing database applications. Complementing the traditional block or branch coverage...
Debugging a database engine is an arduous task due to the complexity of the query workloads and systems. The first step in isolating a bug involves identifying a sequence of step...
Aggregate similarity search, a.k.a. aggregate nearest neighbor (Ann) query, finds many useful applications in spatial and multimedia databases. Given a group Q of M query objects...
Information Extraction (IE) — the problem of extracting structured information from unstructured text — has become the key enabler for many enterprise applications such as sem...
Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, Sajib Dasgupta, Thil...
We address the problem of making online, parallel query plans fault-tolerant: i.e., provide intra-query fault-tolerance without blocking. We develop an approach that not only achi...
Prior work in differential privacy has produced techniques for answering aggregate queries over sensitive data in a privacypreserving way. These techniques achieve privacy by addi...
Xiaokui Xiao, Gabriel Bender, Michael Hay, Johanne...
Complex social and information network search becomes important with a variety of applications. In the core of these applications, lies a common and critical problem: Given a labe...
Arijit Khan, Nan Li, Xifeng Yan, Ziyu Guan, Supriy...
Probabilistic database systems have successfully established themselves as a tool for managing uncertain data. However, much of the research in this area has focused on efficient...
Wikis have proved enormously successful as a means to collaborate in the creation and publication of textual information. At the same time, a large number of curated databases hav...
Peter Buneman, James Cheney, Sam Lindley, Heiko M&...