Full disjunctions are an associative extension of the outerjoin operator to an arbitrary number of relations. Their main advantage is the ability to maximally combine data from di...
We present the Lixto project, which is both a research project in database theory and a commercial enterprise that develops Web data extraction (wrapping) and Web service definiti...
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Robert Baumgartner,...
We consider here the exchange of Active XML (AXML) data, i.e., XML documents where some of the data is given explicitly while other parts are given only intensionally as calls to ...
We present a divide-and-merge methodology for clustering a set of objects that combines a top-down "divide" phase with a bottom-up "merge" phase. In contrast, ...
David Cheng, Santosh Vempala, Ravi Kannan, Grant W...
We investigate the question of whether a query can be answered using a set V of views. We first define the problem in information-theoretic terms: we say that V determines if V pr...