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CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Describing differences between databases
We study the novel problem of efficiently computing the update distance for a pair of relational databases. In analogy to the edit distance of strings, we define the update distan...
Heiko Müller, Johann Christoph Freytag, Ulf L...
DEXAW
2010
IEEE
181views Database» more  DEXAW 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Bridging the Gap between Heterogeneous and Semantically Diverse Content of Different Disciplines
The Web has been flooded with highly heterogeneous data sources that freely offer their data to the public. Careful design and compliance to standards is a way to cope with the he...
Siarhei Bykau, Nadzeya Kiyavitskaya, Chrisa Tsinar...
SPIESR
1996
141views Database» more  SPIESR 1996»
13 years 6 months ago
Describing and Classifying Multimedia Using the Description Logic GRAIL
Many applications would benefit if media objects such as images could be selected and classified (or clustered) such that "conceptually similar" images are grouped toget...
Carole A. Goble, Christian Haul, Sean Bechhofer
BTW
2009
Springer
142views Database» more  BTW 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Bridging the Gap between Variability in Client Application and Database Schema
: Database schemas are used to describe the logical design of a database. Diverse groups of users have different perspectives on the schema which leads to different local schemas. ...
Norbert Siegmund, Christian Kästner, Marko Ro...
ICDE
1999
IEEE
151views Database» more  ICDE 1999»
14 years 6 months ago
Data Integration by Describing Sources with Constraint Databases
We develop a data integration approach for the efficient evaluation of queries over autonomous source databases. The approach is based on some novel applications and extensions of...
Xun Cheng, Guozhu Dong, Tzekwan Lau, Jianwen Su