The ability to approximately answer aggregation queries accurately and efficiently is of great benefit for decision support and data mining tools. In contrast to previous sampling...
The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and ex...
Given the current trend towards application interoperability and XML-based data integration, there is an increasing need for XML interfaces to relational database management system...
Oded Shmueli, George A. Mihaila, Sriram Padmanabha...
Ontologies are increasingly used to represent the intended real-world semantics of data and services in information systems. Unfortunately, different databases often do not relate ...
Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Kiefer, Christoph Sturm...
This paper presents the results of the second test phase of the RIMES1 evaluation campaign. The latter is the first large-scale evaluation campaign intended to all the key players...