A peer-to-peer (P2P) data management system consists essentially of a network of peer systems, each maintaining full autonomy over its own data resources. Data exchange between pe...
Query containment is the most fundamental relationship between a pair of database queries: a query Q is said to be contained in a query Q if the answer for Q is always a subset of...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
We study the problem of answering queries through a target schema, given a set of mappings between one or more source schemas and this target schema, and given that the data is at...
We introduce a benchmark called TEXTURE (TEXT Under RElations) to measure the relative strengths and weaknesses of combining text processing with a relational workload in an RDBMS...
Vuk Ercegovac, David J. DeWitt, Raghu Ramakrishnan