In fall of 2004, we met Jim Gray and began to converse about the data needs of ocean scientists. The conversations ultimately led to the development of a unique portal for explori...
Abstract— Today data sources are pervasive and their number is growing tremendously. Current tools are not prepared to exploit this unprecedented amount of information and to cop...
All existing proposals for querying XML (e.g., XQuery) rely on a pattern-specification language that allows (1) path navigation and branching through the label structure of the XM...
Data integration systems offer users a uniform interface to a set of data sources. Previous work has typically assumed that the data sources are independent of each other; however...
materialized view selection is a non-trivial task. Hence, its complexity must be reduced. A judicious choice of views must be costdriven and influenced by the workload experienced...