We consider the problem of rewriting a query efficiently using materialized views. In the context of information integration, this problem has received significant attention in th...
Continuous Queries (CQ) help users to retrieve results as soon as they become available. The CQ keeps track of two important events. If there is any change in the source informatio...
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
The ever-increasing amount of data in biomedical research, and in cancer research in particular, needs to be managed to support efficient data access, exchange and integration. Exi...
: Schema matching is the process of identifying semantic correspondences between schemas. COMA++ is a matching prototype which uses several characteristics of schemas to determine ...