We consider a system in which many users run queries to examine subsets of a large object set. The object set is partitioned into files on tape. A single subset of objects will b...
Data cleaning is the process of correcting anomalies in a data source, that may for instance be due to typographical errors, or duplicate representations of an entity. It is a cruc...
Efficiently managing storage is important for virtualized computing environments. Its importance is magnified by developments such as cloud computing which consolidate many thousa...
Wikipedia is an example of the large, collaborative, semi-structured data sets emerging on the Web. Typically, before these data sets can be used, they must transformed into struc...
Motivated to a large extent by the substantial and growing prominence of the World-Wide Web and the potential benefits that may be obtained by applying database concepts and tech...