Modern information systems often store data that has been transformed and integrated from a variety of sources. This integration may obscure the original source semantics of data ...
Many aspects of the data integration problem have been considered in the literature: how to match schemas across different data sources, how to decide when different records refer...
Empirical equations are an important class of regularities that can be discovered in databases. In this paper we concentrate on the role of equations as de nitions of attribute val...
Abstract: Peer data management systems (PDMS) are the natural extension of integrated information systems. Conventionally, a single integrating system manages an integrated schema,...
Ralf Heese, Sven Herschel, Felix Naumann, Armin Ro...
Over the past several decades, the study of conjunctive queries has occupied a central place in the theory and practice of database systems. In recent years, conjunctive queries h...