We study the problem of generating synthetic databases having declaratively specified characteristics. This problem is motivated by database system and application testing, data ...
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
In the area of agent-based computing there are many proposals for specific system architectures, and a number of proposals for general approaches to building agents. As yet, howev...
Jordi Sabater, Carles Sierra, Simon Parsons, Nicho...
XML-relational systems with well defined XML and relational schemas are widely used in industry. In the presence of rapidly changing requirements both schemas of such a model need...
Unity is an architecture for integrating relational databases that performs three processes: metadata capture, semantic integration, and query formulation and execution. The found...