The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
In this article, we describe techniques for time management for new faculty members, covering a wide range of topics ranging from advice on scheduling meetings, email, to writing ...
Data partitioning is often used to scale-up a database system. In a centralized database system, the serialization order of commited update transactions can be inferred from the d...
Database management systems (DBMS) have significantly changed in the last several years. From a system dealing with management of administrative data they have involved to a spati...