If you have ever encountered a piece of highly domain-specific business software, you may have noticed that it was largely a graphical front-end to some relational database. You ...
The growth of the Internet has made it possible to query data in all corners of the globe. This trend is being abetted by the emergence of standards for data representation, such ...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kristin Tufte, David J. ...
Most recommendation methods (e.g., collaborative filtering) consist of (1) a computationally intense offline phase that computes a recommender model based on users’ opinions o...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. M...
There are two broad approaches to query evaluation over probabilistic databases: (1) Intensional Methods proceed by manipulating expressions over symbolic events associated with u...
Expressing complex OLAP queries using group-by, aggregation, and joins can be extremely difficult. As a result of this, many alternate ways of expressing such queries have been de...