Abstract. We study containment of conjunctive queries that are evaluated over databases that may contain tuples with null values. We assume the semantics of SQL for single block qu...
We introduce a new abstract model of database query processing, finite cursor machines, that incorporates certain data streaming aspects. The model describes quite faithfully what...
Martin Grohe, Yuri Gurevich, Dirk Leinders, Nicole...
The paper presents a data cleansing technique for string databases. We propose and evaluate an algorithm that identifies a group of strings that consists of (multiple) occurrence...
The development of web and digital camera nowadays has made it easier to collect more than hundreds of thousands of examples. How to train a face detector based on the collected en...
Jie Chen, Ruiping Wang, Shengye Yan, Shiguang Shan...
We present a new approach to the grid technology that is based on federated databases and updatable views. Views are used in two ways: (1) as wrappers of local servers that adopt l...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...