: Schema mapping techniques for data exchange have become popular and useful tools both in research and industry. A schema mapping relates a source schema with a target schema via ...
Much work has been done on characterizing the workload of a database system. Previous studies focused on providing different types of statistical summaries, and modeling the run-ti...
Probabilistic models have recently been utilized for the optimization of large combinatorial search problems. However, complex probabilistic models that attempt to capture interpa...
The widespread use of sensor networks presents revolutionary opportunities for life and environmental science applications. Many of these applications involve continuous queries t...
Moustafa A. Hammad, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmaga...
Digital music collections often contain different versions and interpretations of a single musical work. In view of music retrieval and browsing applications, one important task, ...