Searching and extracting meaningful information out of highly heterogeneous datasets is a hot topic that received a lot of attention. However, the existing solutions are based on e...
Magic sets rewriting is a well-known optimization heuristic for complex decision-support queries. There can be many variants of this rewriting even for a single query, which diffe...
Praveen Seshadri, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Hamid Pir...
Data replication can help database systems meet the stringent temporal constraints of current time-critical applications, especially Internet-based services. A prerequisite, howev...
Ming Xiong, Krithi Ramamritham, Jayant R. Haritsa,...
We study the problem of computing query results with confidence values in ULDBs: relational databases with uncertainty and lineage. ULDBs, which subsume probabilistic databases, o...
Abstract This paper describes the overall design and architecture of the Timber XML database system currently being implemented at the University of Michigan. The system is based u...
H. V. Jagadish, Shurug Al-Khalifa, Adriane Chapman...