To carry out work assignments, small groups distributed within a larger enterprise often need to share documents among themselves while shielding those documents from others'...
Sergej Zerr, Elena Demidova, Daniel Olmedilla, Wol...
Schema mapping algorithms rely on value correspondences ? i.e., correspondences among semantically related attributes ? to produce complex transformations among data sources. Thes...
We introduce a novel spatial join operator, the ring-constrained join (RCJ). Given two sets P and Q of spatial points, the result of RCJ consists of pairs p, q (where p P, q Q) ...
Estimating the number of distinct elements in a large multiset has several applications, and hence has attracted active research in the past two decades. Several sampling and sket...
We address the problem of generating a mediated schema from a set of relational data source schemas and conjunctive queries that specify where those schemas overlap. Unlike past a...