Large amounts of (often valuable) information are stored in web-accessible text databases. "Metasearchers" provide unified interfaces to query multiple such databases at...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Alexandros Ntoulas, Jungh...
Uncertain data are inherent in some important applications, such as environmental surveillance, market analysis, and quantitative economics research. Due to the importance of thos...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a natural extension of heterogeneous database systems. One of the main tasks in such systems is efficient query processing. Insisting on co...
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
We investigate the problem of using materialized views to answer SQL queries. We focus on modern decision-support queries, which involve joins, arithmetic operations and other (po...
Markos Zaharioudakis, Roberta Cochrane, George Lap...