Declarative data quality has been an active research topic. The fundamental principle behind a declarative approach to data quality is the use of declarative statements to realize...
Amit Chandel, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Nick Koudas, Moha...
XML data integration tools are facing a variety of challenges for their efficient and effective operation. Among these is the requirement to handle a variety of inconsistencies or...
Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ting...
We define a match join of R and S with predicate to be a subset of the -join of R and S such that each tuple of R and S contributes to at most one result tuple. Match joins and t...
Ameet Kini, Srinath Shankar, Jeffrey F. Naughton, ...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Spatial database operations are typically performed in two steps. In the filtering step, indexes and the minimum bounding rectangles (MBRs) of the objects are used to quickly dete...