Recently, an axiomatization for functional dependencies (FDs) and multivalued dependencies (MVDs) has been established where arbitrary attributes can be specified as NOT NULL. Tha...
Changing preferences is very common in real life. The expressive power of the operations of preference change introduced so far in the literature is limited to adding new informat...
Named entity disambiguation concerns linking a potentially ambiguous mention of named entity in text to an unambiguous identifier in a standard database. One approach to this task...
Keyword search in relational databases (RDBs) has been extensively studied recently. A keyword search (or a keyword query) in RDBs is specified by a set of keywords to explore the...
A successful representation of objects in the literature is as a collection of patches, or parts, with a certain appearance and position. The relative locations of the different p...