The effective grouping, or partitioning, of semistructured data is of fundamental importance when providing support for queries. Partitions allow items within the data set that sh...
John N. Wilson, Richard Gourlay, Robert Japp, Math...
The constant increase in use of geographic data in different application domains has resulted in large amounts of data stored in spatial databases and in the desire of data mining....
Vania Bogorny, Paulo Martins Engel, Luis Otá...
SQL extensions that allow queries to explicitly specify data quality requirements in terms of currency and consistency were proposed in an earlier paper. This paper develops a dat...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
Emergent Semantics is a new paradigm for inferring semantic meaning from implicit feedback by a sufficiently large number of users of an object retrieval system. In this paper, we ...