The identification and processing of similarities in the data play a key role in multiple application scenarios. Several types of similarity-aware operations have been studied in ...
The goal of EII Systems is to provide uniform access to multiple data sources without having to first loading them into a data warehouse. Since the late 1990's, several EII p...
Alon Y. Halevy, Naveen Ashish, Dina Bitton, Michae...
Decision-support applications generate queries with complex predicates. We show how the factorization of complex query expressions exposes significant opportunities for exploiting...
Redundancy and minimization of queries are investigated in a well known fragment of XPath that includes child and descendant edges, branches, wildcards, and multiple output nodes....
—In this paper, we introduce NNexus, a generalization of the automatic linking engine of Noosphere (at PlanetMath.org) and the first system that automates the process of linking...