Empowering users to access databases using simple keywords can relieve the users from the steep learning curve of mastering a structured query language and understanding complex a...
An important activity in the design of a particular database application consists in identifying the integrity constraints that must hold on the database, and that are used to det...
Karla A. V. Borges, Alberto H. F. Laender, Clodove...
The success of the World Wide Web is boosting the development of multimedia database systems and their integration into the internet. For the documents stored and exchanged in the...
Compensation is the process by which a committed transaction in a database is undone by running the semantic inverse of that transaction on the database. Compensation has been pro...
This paper introduces a new measurement, robustness, to measure the quality of machine-discovered knowledge from real-world databases that change over time. A piece of knowledge i...