We present Stretch `n' Shrink, a query design framework that explicitly takes into account user preferences about the desired answer size, and subsequently modifies the query...
Abstract. Information concerning the origin of data (that is, its provenance) is important in many areas, especially scientific recordkeeping. Currently, provenance information mu...
Abstract. Often, XML documents stored in an XML database must be transformed by an XSL processor into a client-specific format before queries are submitted. In applications where X...
Commercial relational database systems today provide only limited temporal support. To address the needs of applications requiring rich temporal data and queries, we have built TI...
The aspect of security needs more consideration in the area of architectures for multidatabase systems. Particularly, the authentication of users which is a main prerequisite for ...