Relational index structures, as for instance the Relational Interval Tree, the Relational R-Tree, or the Linear Quadtree, support efficient processing of queries on top of existing...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
In data-integration systems, information sources often have various constraints such as “all houses stored at a source have a unique address.” These constraints are very usefu...
We describe the Consistency Extractor System (ConsEx) that computes consistent answers to Datalog queries with negation posed to relational databases that may be inconsistent with...
RFID technology provides significant advantages over traditional object-tracking technology and is increasingly adopted and deployed in real applications. RFID applications genera...
Yijian Bai, Fusheng Wang, Peiya Liu, Carlo Zaniolo...
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...