Discovery of functionaldependencies from relations has been identified as an important database analysis technique. In this paper, we present a new approach for finding functional...
—Traditional hierarchical namespaces are not sufficient for representing and managing the rich semantics of today’s storage systems. In this paper, we discuss the principles o...
Zhichen Xu, Magnus Karlsson, Chunqiang Tang, Chris...
We consider a set of views stating possibly conflicting facts. Negative facts in the views may come, e.g., from functional dependencies in the underlying database schema. We want ...
In a recent paper by Hellerstein [15], a tight relationship was conjectured between the number of strata of a Datalog¬ program and the number of “coordination stages” require...
An important issue arising from Peer-to-Peer applications is how to accurately and efficiently retrieve a set of K best matching data objects from different sources while minimizi...