Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka "null values") is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through media...
Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
The Task Parallel Library (TPL) is a library for .NET that makes it easy to take advantage of potential parallelism in a program. The library relies heavily on generics and delega...
Daan Leijen, Wolfram Schulte, Sebastian Burckhardt
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
In general, provenance of electronic data represents an important issue in information systems. So far, Serviceoriented Computing research has mainly focused on provenance of data...
Anton Michlmayr, Florian Rosenberg, Philipp Leitne...