Object identification is a crucial step in most information systems. Nowadays, we have many different ways to identify entities such as surrogates, keys and object identifiers. Ho...
Artificial intelligence has been an active branch of research for computer scientists and psychologists for 50 years. The concept of mimicking human intelligence in a computer fue...
Edit distance based string similarity join is a fundamental operator in string databases. Increasingly, many applications in data cleaning, data integration, and scientific compu...
We present a pointer analysis algorithm designed for source-to-source transformations. Existing techniques for pointer analysis apply a collection of inference rules to a dismantl...
Marcio Buss, Stephen A. Edwards, Bin Yao, Dan G. W...
We take another look at the 2DR-tree. In particular, we revisit its node structure, validity rules and the insertion strategy. The 2DR-tree uses 2D nodes so that the relationships...