Abstract-- The inherent uncertainty of data present in numerous applications such as sensor databases, text annotations, and information retrieval motivate the need to handle impre...
Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Rahul Shah, Sunil ...
Many data integration solutions in the market today include tools for schema mapping, to help users visually relate elements of different schemas. Schema elements are connected wit...
Alessandro Raffio, Daniele Braga, Mauricio A. Hern...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. By processing a text database with information extraction systems, we can define a variety of structured "relati...
XML queries typically specify patterns of selection predicates on multiple elements that have some specified tree structured relationships. The primitive tree structured relations...
Shurug Al-Khalifa, H. V. Jagadish, Jignesh M. Pate...
We study the problem of query optimization in federated relational database systems. The nature of federated databases explicitly decouples many aspects of the optimization proces...