The sparse data is becoming increasingly common and available in many real-life applications. However, relative little attention has been paid to effectively model the sparse data ...
Many advanced data management operations (e.g., incremental maintenance, trust assessment, debugging schema mappings, keyword search over databases, or query answering in probabil...
Grigoris Karvounarakis, Zachary G. Ives, Val Tanne...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...
Annotations play a key role in understanding and curating databases. Annotations may represent comments, descriptions, lineage information, among several others. Annotation manage...
Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmag...