Random sampling is a popular technique for providing fast approximate query answers, especially in data warehouse environments. Compared to other types of synopses, random sampling...
The integration of data produced and collected across autonomous, heterogeneous web services is an increasingly important and challenging problem. Due to the lack of global identi...
Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas...
A "sparse" data set typically has hundreds or even thousands of attributes, but most objects have non-null values for only a small number of these attributes. A popular ...
Eric Chu, Jennifer L. Beckmann, Jeffrey F. Naughto...
The composition of services that are indexed in a large-scale service directory often involves many complex queries issued by the service composition algorithm to the directory. Th...
Abstract. Ontologies have become very popular in life sciences and other domains. They mostly undergo continuous changes and new ontology versions are frequently released. However,...
Toralf Kirsten, Michael Hartung, Anika Gross, Erha...