A fundamental problem in data management is to draw and maintain a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With la...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
—Model-Based Development (MBD) provides an al level of abstraction, the model, which lets engineers focus on the business aspect of the developed system. MBD permits automatic tr...
For several reasons a database may not satisfy certain integrity constraints (ICs). However, most likely most of the information in it is still consistent with the ICs; and could ...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Loreto Bravo, Enrico Francon...
We consider the problem of retrieving consistent answers over databases that might be inconsistent with respect to some given integrity constraints. In particular, we concentrate o...
Information integration systems provide a uniform query interface to a set of sources. One of the key challenges for an information integration system is to provide maximally comp...