The ability to approximately answer aggregation queries accurately and efficiently is of great benefit for decision support and data mining tools. In contrast to previous sampling...
The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and ex...
In E-commerce processes, various rules and constraints regarding product specifications, pricing, terms and conditions are exchanged between vendors and buyers. Developing a forma...
Mizuho Iwaihara, Masayuki Kozawa, Jun Narazaki, Ya...
This paper studies five strategies for storing XML documents including one that leaves documents in the file system, three that use a relational database system, and one that uses...
Feng Tian, David J. DeWitt, Jianjun Chen, Chun Zha...
In this paper, we propose to deploy type-theoretic techniques to the service description and composition verification. We define a flexible type system for modeling instances a...