— Uncertainties in data arise for a number of reasons: when the data set is incomplete, contains conflicting information or has been deliberately perturbed or coarsened to remov...
Graham Cormode, Divesh Srivastava, Entong Shen, Ti...
XML Schema supports the specification of occurrence constraints by declaring values for its min/maxOccurs attributes. These constraints are structural in the sense that they rest...
In fast OLAP applications it is often advantageous to provide approximate answers to range queries in order to achieve very high performances. A possible solution is to inquire sum...
Francesco Buccafurri, Filippo Furfaro, Domenico Sa...
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
We investigate the problem of refining SQL queries to satisfy cardinality constraints on the query result. This has applications to the many/few answers problems often faced by da...