Relational Database Systems often support activities like data warehousing, cleaning and integration. All these activities require performing some sort of data transformations. Si...
This paper presents an efficient algorithm for retrieving from a database of trees, all trees that match a given query tree appro,imately, that is, within a certain error toleranc...
Querying non-conventional data is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is the ability to qu...
We introduce an active data mining paradigm that combines the recent work in data mining with the rich literature on active database systems. In this paradigm, data is continuousl...
Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...