Abstract. Solving conflicts between overlapping databases requires an understanding of the reasons that lead to the inconsistencies. Provided that conflicts do not occur randomly b...
This paper presents a methodology for setting up a Decision Support system for User Interface Design (DSUID). We first motivate the role and contributions of DSUID and then demons...
Access limitations may occur when querying data sources over the web or heterogeneous data sources presented as relational tables: this happens, for instance, in Data Exchange and ...
The dependency propagation problem is to determine, given a view defined on data sources and a set of dependencies on the sources, whether another dependency is guaranteed to hold...
Wenfei Fan, Shuai Ma, Yanli Hu, Jie Liu, Yinghui W...
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...