The R*-tree is a state-of-the-art spatial index structure. It has already found its way into commercial systems. The most important improvement of the R*-tree over the original R-...
Similarity search and similarity join on strings are important for applications such as duplicate detection, error detection, data cleansing, or comparison of biological sequences....
Abstract Integrated engineering environments, based on federated database technology, are, among others, a means to control the integrity of and dependencies between product data c...
Auditing the changes to a database is critical for identifying malicious behavior, maintaining data quality, and improving system performance. But an accurate audit log is a histor...
One of the goals of cleaning an inconsistent database is to remove conflicts between tuples. Typically, the user specifies how the conflicts should be resolved. Sometimes this spec...
Slawomir Staworko, Jan Chomicki, Jerzy Marcinkowsk...