Most database interfaces provide poor guidance on ad hoc query formulation, burdening users to learn, and to recall precisely the query language and the database. Kaleidoscope avo...
We consider systems for data sharing among heterogeneous peers related by a network of schema mappings. Each peer has a locally controlled and edited database instance, but wants ...
Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Zachary G. ...
Network data models are frequently used as a mechanism to describe the connectivity between spatial features in many emerging GIS applications (location-based services, transporta...
Petko Bakalov, Erik G. Hoel, Wee-Liang Heng, Vassi...
We describe a new approach to managing information quality (IQ) in an e-Science context, by allowing scientists to define the quality characteristics that are of importance in the...
Paolo Missier, Alun D. Preece, Suzanne M. Embury, ...
We investigate the problem of incremental maintenance of an SQL view in the face of database updates, and show that it is possible to reduce the total time cost of view maintenanc...