Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
Modern enterprise data warehouses have complex workloads that are notoriously difficult to manage. An important problem in workload management is to run these complex workloads `o...
While sensor networks are going to be deployed in diverse application specific contexts, one unifying view is to treat them essentially as distributed databases. The simplest mech...
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...
As applications within and outside the enterprise encounter increasing volumes of unstructured data, there has been renewed interest in the area of information extraction (IE) ? t...