An optimization query asks for one or more data objects that maximize or minimize some function over the data set. We propose a general class of queries, model-based optimization ...
Model management is an approach to simplify the programming of metadata-intensive applications. It offers developers powerful operators, such as Compose, Diff, and Merge, that are...
Sergey Melnik, Philip A. Bernstein, Alon Y. Halevy...
This paper introduces the problem of modeling urban transportation systems in a database where certain aspects of the data are probabilistic in nature. The transportation network ...
Joel Booth, A. Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, Isabel...
Cooperation in information retrieval contexts can be used to share query results inside groups of individuals with common objectives, provided that all of them are aware of each ot...
We propose a transaction model that provides a framework for transactions to cooperate without sacrificing serializability as a notion of correctness. Cooperation does not depend ...