Uncertain data are inherent in some important applications, such as environmental surveillance, market analysis, and quantitative economics research. Due to the importance of thos...
As more sensitive data is captured in electronic form, security becomes more and more important. Data encryption is the main technique for achieving security. While in the past en...
This paper addresses the problem of explaining missing answers in queries that include selection, projection, join, union, aggregation and grouping (SPJUA). Explaining missing ans...
Abstract. A Data Warehouse (DW) is a data repository that organizes and physically integrates data from multiple sources under special kinds of schemas. A DW is composed by a set o...
In information-integration systems, source relations often have limitations on access patterns to their data; i.e., when one must provide values for certain attributes of a relatio...