Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
Finding information about people on the Web using a search engine is difficult because there is a many-to-many mapping between person names and specific persons (i.e. referents). ...
This paper describes the Query Rewrite facility of the Starburst extensible database system, a novel phase of query optimization. We present a suite of rewrite rules used in Starb...
Hamid Pirahesh, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Waqar Hasan
The increasing volume of data stored as XML documents makes fragmentation techniques an alternative to the performance issues in query processing. Fragmented databases are feasible...
Guilherme Figueiredo, Vanessa P. Braganholo, Marta...
The Web has the potential to become the world’s
largest knowledge base. In order to unleash this potential,
the wealth of information available on the Web needs to be
extracte...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...