An intelligent agent may receive information about its environment from several different sources. How should the agent merge these items of information into a single, consistent ...
Many applications call for methods to enable automatic extraction of structured information from unstructured natural language text. Due to inherent challenges of natural language ...
The number of potentially-related data resources available for querying -- databases, data warehouses, virtual integrated schemas -continues to grow rapidly. Perhaps no area has s...
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob, Muhammad Salm...
XML schema design has two opposing goals: elimination of update anomalies requires that the schema be as normalized as possible; yet higher query performance and simpler query exp...
Nuwee Wiwatwattana, H. V. Jagadish, Laks V. S. Lak...
The class of unions of conjunctive queries (UCQ) has been shown to be particularly well-behaved for data exchange; its certain answers can be computed in polynomial time (in terms...