The Web has been flooded with highly heterogeneous data sources that freely offer their data to the public. Careful design and compliance to standards is a way to cope with the he...
Data on the Web is increasingly being used for discovery and exploratory tasks. Unlike traditional fact-finding tasks that require only the typical single-query and response parad...
— Uncertain data is quite common nowadays in a variety of modern database applications. At the same time, the join operation is one of the most important but expensive operations...
Abstract. We present a simple query language for XML, which supports hierarchical, Boolean-connected query patterns. The interpretation of a query is founded on cost-based query tr...
A distributed message delivery system can use replication to improve performance and availability. However, without safeguards, replicated messages may be delivered to a mobile de...