As XML has developed over the past few years, its role has expanded beyond its original domain as a semantics-preserving markup language for online documents, and it is now also t...
Igor Tatarinov, Zachary G. Ives, Alon Y. Halevy, D...
Historically, bitmap indexing has provided an important database capability to accelerate queries. However, only a few database systems have implemented these indexes because of t...
Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Patrick E. O'Neil, Kesheng Wu
Automatically segmenting unstructured text strings into structured records is necessary for importing the information contained in legacy sources and text collections into a data ...
One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
We study the problem of automatically discovering semantic associations between schema elements, namely foreign keys. This problem is important in all applications where data sets...
Alexandra Rostin, Oliver Albrecht, Jana Bauckmann,...