Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airline tickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high ...
This work introduces novel polynomial algorithms for processing top-k queries in uncertain databases under the generally adopted model of x-relations. An x-relation consists of a n...
Ke Yi, Feifei Li, George Kollios, Divesh Srivastav...
Applications that query data streams in order to identify trends, patterns, or anomalies can often benefit from comparing the live stream data with archived historical stream dat...
Frederick Reiss, Kurt Stockinger, Kesheng Wu, Arie...
Several web applications (such as processing RSS feeds or web service messages) rely on XPath-based data manipulation tools. Web developers need to use XPath queries effectively o...
A number of efficient methods for evaluating first-order and monadic-second order queries on finite relational structures are based on tree-decompositions of structures or quer...