Database support of time-varying phenomena typically assumes that entities change in a linear fashion. Many phenomena, however, change cyclically over time. Examples include monsoo...
Kathleen Hornsby, Max J. Egenhofer, Patrick J. Hay...
A universal model of a database D and a set Σ of integrity constraints is a database that extends D, satisfies Σ, and is most general in the sense that it contains sound and co...
There has been interest recently in skyline queries, also called Pareto queries, on relational databases. Relational query languages do not support search for "best" tupl...
Jan Chomicki, Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Dongming ...
Named entity disambiguation concerns linking a potentially ambiguous mention of named entity in text to an unambiguous identifier in a standard database. One approach to this task...
Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...