Given a set of keywords, we find a maximum Web query (containing the most keywords possible) that respects userdefined bounds on the number of returned hits. We assume a real-world...
Sensors are often employed to monitor continuously changing entities like locations of moving objects and temperature. The sensor readings are reported to a database system, and a...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...
Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...
As the area of data management for the Internet has gained in popularity, recent work has focused on effectively dealing with unpredictable, dynamic data volumes and transfer rate...
Zachary G. Ives, Alon Y. Levy, Daniel S. Weld, Dan...
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...