The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
In this paper, we address the problem of extending a relational database system to facilitate efficient real-time application of dynamic probabilistic models to streaming data. he ...
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such that the amoun...
In data applications such as information integration, there can be limited access patterns to relations, i.e., binding patterns require values to be specified for certain attribut...
The full disjunction is a variation of the join operator that maximally combines tuples from connected relations, while preserving all information in the relations. The full disju...