We solve the problem of record linkage between databases where record fields are mixed and permuted in different ways. The solution method uses a conditional random fields model...
We consider the problem of finding and ranking paths in semistructured data without necessarily knowing its full structure. The query language we adopt comprises conjunctions of r...
Carlos A. Hurtado, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter ...
Index tuning as part of database tuning is the task of selecting and creating indexes with the goal of reducing query processing times. However, in dynamic environments with vario...
This work addresses the problem of efficient maintenance of the (correct) answers to the continuous spatio-temporal range queries in Moving Objects Databases (MOD), which represen...
Integrity checking is an essential means for the preservation of the intended semantics of a deductive database. Incrementality is the only feasible approach to checking and can be...