There is an increasing quantity of data with uncertainty arising from applications such as sensor network measurements, record linkage, and as output of mining algorithms. This un...
The standard database mechanisms for concurrency control, which include transactions and locking protocols, do not provide the support needed for updating complex geographic data i...
Petko Bakalov, Erik G. Hoel, Sudhakar Menon, Vassi...
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
We study two classes of view update problems in relational databases. We are given a source database S, a monotone query Q, and the view Q(S) generated by the query. The first pro...
Location-based context-aware services for mobile users need to collaborate in disparate networks. Services come and go as the user moves and no central repository is available. Th...