Generating query-answering plans for information gathering agents requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a set of virtual relations, to a query that uses relat...
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...
The detection of new information in a document stream is an important component of many potential applications. In this work, a new novelty detection approach based on the identif...
Equi-depth histograms represent a fundamental synopsis widely used in both database and data stream applications, as they provide the cornerstone of many techniques such as query ...
The problem of rewriting queries using views has received significant attention because of its applications in a wide variety of datamanagement problems. For select-project-join SQ...
Foto N. Afrati, Rada Chirkova, Manolis Gergatsouli...