Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
Wikipedia infoboxes is an example of a seemingly structured, yet extraordinarily heterogeneous dataset, where any given record has only a tiny fraction of all possible fields. Su...
Scientific experiments produce large volumes of data represented as complex objects that describe independent events such as particle collisions. Scientific analyses can be express...
Dynamic plan migration is concerned with the on-the-fly transition from one continuous query plan to a semantically equivalent yet more efficient plan. Migration is important for ...
Yali Zhu, Elke A. Rundensteiner, George T. Heinema...
We consider the problem of handling similarity queries in peer-to-peer databases. Given a query for a data object, we propose an indexing and searching mechanism which returns the...
Indrajit Bhattacharya, Srinivas R. Kashyap, Sriniv...