Today's query processing engines do not take advantage of the multiple occurrences of a relation in a query to improve performance. Instead, each instance is treated as a dis...
Yu Cao, Gopal C. Das, Chee Yong Chan, Kian-Lee Tan
Schema matching identifies elements of two given schemas that correspond to each other. Although there are many algorithms for schema matching, little has been written about build...
Philip A. Bernstein, Sergey Melnik, Michalis Petro...
With the increased abilities for automated data collection made possible by modern technology, the typical sizes of data collections have continued to grow in recent years. In suc...
An intelligent agent will often be uncertain about various properties of its environment, and when acting in that environment it will frequently need to quantify its uncertainty. ...
The amount of stored information is exploding while, at the same time, tools for accessing relevant information are rather under-developed. Usually, all users have a pre-defined vi...