This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query...
Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Wei...
Discovering associations between elements occurring in a stream is applicable in numerous applications, including predictive caching and fraud detection. These applications requir...
A key challenge for companies is to manage customer relationships as an asset. To create an effective toolkit for the analysis of customer relationships, a combination of relation...
Andreas Meier, Nicolas Werro, Martin Albrecht, Mil...
To answer user queries, a data integration system employs a set of semantic mappings between the mediated schema and the schemas of data sources. In dynamic environments sources o...
Robert McCann, Bedoor K. AlShebli, Quoc Le, Hoa Ng...
Biological data management includes the traditional areas of data generation, acquisition, modelling, integration, and analysis. Although numerous academic biological data managem...
Victor M. Markowitz, Frank Korzeniewski, Krishna P...
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
In this paper, we propose a method for maintaining a semantic cache of materialized XPath views. The cached views include queries that have been previously asked, and additional s...
Multi-join queries are the core of any integration service that integrates data from multiple distributed data sources. Due to the large number of data sources and possibly high v...
A significant amount of information is stored in computer systems today, but people are struggling to manage their documents such that the information is easily found. XML is a de...