When integrating data from heterogeneous sources, it is often necessary to transform both the schemas and the data from the underlying sources in order to present the integrated d...
Ontology, an explicit specification of shared conceptualization, has been increasingly used to define formal data semantics and improve data reusability and interoperability in en...
Sovereign information sharing allows autonomous entities to compute queries across their databases in such a way that nothing apart from the result is revealed. We describe an imp...
Rakesh Agrawal, Dmitri Asonov, Ramakrishnan Srikan...
Spatial indexing has been one of the active focus areas in recent database research. Several variants of Quadtree and R-tree indexes have been proposed in database literature. In ...
Kothuri Venkata Ravi Kanth, Siva Ravada, Daniel Ab...
We study the verification of compositions of Web Service peers which interact asynchronously by exchanging messages. Each peer has access to a local database and reacts to user in...
Alin Deutsch, Liying Sui, Victor Vianu, Dayou Zhou