— Information Systems are subject to a perpetual evolution, which is particularly pressing in Web Information Systems, due to their distributed and often collaborative nature. Su...
Carlo Curino, Hyun J. Moon, MyungWon Ham, Carlo Za...
The presence of encyclopedic Web sources, such as Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), World Factbook, etc. calls for new querying techniques that are simple and yet mor...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...
Abstract. Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) have recently attracted attention by the database community. One of the main challenges of this paradigm is the development and evalua...
Katja Hose, Andreas Job, Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe...
XQuery is increasingly popular among computer scientists with a SQL background, since queries in XQuery and SQL require comparable skills to be formulated. However, the number of ...
Materializing results from complex aggregation queries helps to significantly improve response times in OLAP servers. This problem is known as the view selection problem: choosing ...