In some applications such as filling in a customer information form on the web, some missing values may not be explicitly represented as such, but instead appear as potentially va...
A primary challenge to large-scale data integration is creating semantic equivalences between elements from different data sources that correspond to the same real-world entity or...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Alon Y. Hal...
We study the problem of querying relational data embedded in XML. Relational data can be represented by various tree structures in XML. However, current XML query methods, such as...
As peer-to-peer (P2P) networks become more familiar to the database community, intense interest has built up in using their scalability and resilience properties to scale database...
Discovering a bucket order B from a collection of possibly noisy full rankings is a fundamental problem that relates to various applications involving rankings. Informally, a buck...