The integration of data produced and collected across autonomous, heterogeneous web services is an increasingly important and challenging problem. Due to the lack of global identi...
Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas...
We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...
In this paper, we ask if the traditional relational query acceleration techniques of summary tables and covering indexes have analogs for branching path expression queries over tr...
Raghav Kaushik, Philip Bohannon, Jeffrey F. Naught...
Query-oriented summarization aims at extracting an informative summary from a document collection for a given query. It is very useful to help users grasp the main information rel...
XML is fast becoming the standard for information exchange on the Internet. As such, information expressed in XML will need to be integrated with existing information systems, whi...