XML is widely praised for its flexibility in allowing repeated and missing sub-elements. However, this flexibility makes it challenging to develop a bulk algebra, which typically ...
Stelios Paparizos, Yuqing Wu, Laks V. S. Lakshmana...
We extend the OLAP data model to represent data ambiguity, specifically imprecision and uncertainty, and introduce an allocation-based approach to the semantics of aggregation qu...
Douglas Burdick, Prasad Deshpande, T. S. Jayram, R...
Libraries, museums, and other organizations make their electronic contents available to a growing number of users on the Web. A large fraction of the information published is store...
We consider how to support interactive querying over webscale data. The basic approach is to view querying as a two-phase activity: first supply a query template, and later supply...
Christopher Olston, Edward Bortnikov, Khaled Elmel...
Semistructured data may be irregular and incomplete and does not necessarily conform to a fixed schema. As with structured data, it is often desirable to maintain a history of cha...
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Serge Abiteboul, Jennifer W...