Abstract. We define and study formal privacy guarantees for information integration systems, where sources are related to a public schema by mappings given by source-to-target dep...
According to the logical model of Information Retrieval (IR), the task of IR can be described as the extraction, from a given document base, of those documents d that, given a que...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
Abstract–Video-on-demand represents a key demonstrative application for enabling multimedia technology in communication, database, and interface research. This application requir...
Thomas D. C. Little, Gulrukh Ahanger, R. J. Folz, ...
For several reasons a database may not satisfy certain integrity constraints (ICs), for example, when it is the result of integrating several independent data sources. However, mo...
Materialized views which are derived from base relations and stored in the database are often used to speed up query processing. In this paper, we leverage them in a traceable peer...