Users often do not require a complete answer to their query but rather only a sample. They expect the sample to be either the largest possible or the most representative (or both)...
—Despite the proliferation of work on XML keyword query, it remains open to support keyword query over probabilistic XML data. Compared with traditional keyword search, it is far...
We address the inference control problem in data cubes with some data known to users through external knowledge. The goal of inference controls is to prevent exact values of sensi...
Current relational databases require that a database schema exist prior to data entry and require manual optimization for best performance. We describe the query optimization tech...
Scott M. Meyer, Jutta Degener, John Giannandrea, B...
We introduce a representation system for relational data based on algebraic factorisation using distributivity of product over union and commutativity of product and union. We giv...