A fundamental concern of information integration in an XML context is the ability to embed one or more source documents in a target document so that (a) the target document confor...
Philip Bohannon, Wenfei Fan, Michael Flaster, P. P...
Query optimizers in current database systems are designed to pick a single efficient plan for a given query based on current statistical properties of the data. However, different...
Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jen...
This paper proposes the live demonstration of a prototype of MINERVA1 , a novel P2P Web search engine. The search engine is layered on top of a DHT-based overlay network that conn...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...
There has been a growing interest in improving the publication processes for database research papers. This panel reports on recent changes in those processes and presents an init...
Philip A. Bernstein, David J. DeWitt, Andreas Heue...
Heterogeneous and dirty data is abundant. It is stored under different, often opaque schemata, it represents identical real-world objects multiple times, causing duplicates, and ...
Alexander Bilke, Jens Bleiholder, Christoph Bö...
An XML-to-relational mapping scheme consists of a procedure for shredding XML documents into relational databases, a procedure for publishing databases back as documents, and a se...
Denilson Barbosa, Juliana Freire, Alberto O. Mende...
When integrating data from autonomous sources, exact matches of data items that represent the same real world object often fail due to a lack of common keys. Yet in many cases str...