The paper investigates the use of topological annotations (called topological invariants) to answer topological queries in spatial databases. The focus is on the translation of to...
DescribeX is a visual, interactive tool for exploring the underlying structure of an XML collection. DescribeX implements a framework for creating XML summaries described using axi...
Mir Sadek Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Shahan Khatchad...
Keyword search over entity databases (e.g., product, movie databases) is an important problem. Current techniques for keyword search on databases may often return incomplete and i...
In this chapter, we summarize the research on querying inconsistent databases we have been conducting over the last five years. The formal framework we have used is based on two c...
The Mediation of Information using XML (MIX) project is a joint effort between the the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Database Lab at the University of California S...