The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
Many databases have become Web-accessible through form-based search interfaces (i.e., HTML forms) that allow users to specify complex and precise queries to access the underlying ...
Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Yiyao Lu, Clement T. Yu, Zongh...
Applying meta search systems is a suitable method to support the user if there are many different services. Due to information splitting strategies of literature services existing ...
To deal with data uncertainty, existing probabilistic database systems augment tuples with attribute-level or tuple-level probability values, which are loaded into the database al...
Ravi Jampani, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Luis Leopoldo Per...
This paper deals with pipelined queries over services. The execution plan of such queries defines an order in which the services are called. We present the theoretical underpinni...