In vague queries, a user enters a value that represents some real world object and expects as the result the set of database values that represent this real world object even with ...
Raquel Kolitski Stasiu, Carlos A. Heuser, Roberto ...
Many websites provide restrictive form-like interfaces which allow users to execute search queries on the underlying hidden databases. In this paper, we consider the problem of es...
Arjun Dasgupta, Xin Jin, Bradley Jewell, Nan Zhang...
Due to the popularity of electronic commerce and the maturity of wireless technology, mobile users can access the Internet anytime anywhere without having to physically hook up an...
We study the problem of query optimization in federated relational database systems. The nature of federated databases explicitly decouples many aspects of the optimization proces...
Due to the increasingly di culty of discovering patterns in real-world databases using only conventional OLAP tools, an automated process such as data mining is currently essentia...