Many applications in analytical domains often have the need to "connect the dots" i.e., query about the structure of data. In bioinformatics for example, it is typical t...
Several recent papers have focused on OLAP over imprecise data, where each fact can be a region, instead of a point, in a multidimensional space. They have provided a multiple-wor...
Douglas Burdick, AnHai Doan, Raghu Ramakrishnan, S...
In a mobile computing system, users carrying portable devices can access database services from any location without requiring a fixed position in the networking environment. Some ...
In this paper, we motivate the need for and challenges involved in supporting imprecise queries over Web databases. Then we briefly explain our solution, AIMQ - a domain independe...
We investigate the problem of incremental maintenance of an SQL view in the face of database updates, and show that it is possible to reduce the total time cost of view maintenanc...