Face recognition has become an important topic within the field of pattern recognition and computer vision. In this field a number of different approaches to feature extraction, m...
Matching dependencies were recently introduced as declarative rules for data cleaning and entity resolution. Enforcing a matching dependency on a database instance identifies the ...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Solmaz Kolahi, Laks V. S. La...
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
As massive document repositories and knowledge management systems continue to expand, in proprietary environments as well as on the Web, the need for duplicate detection becomes i...
We study the problem of maintaining recursively-de ned views, such as the transitive closure of a relation, in traditional relational languages that do not have recursion mechanis...