Relational database (DB) management systems provide the standard means for structuring and querying large amounts of data. However, to access such data the exact structure of the D...
Raffaella Bernardi, Francesca Bonin, Diego Calvane...
We propose a class of constraints, referred to as conditional functional dependencies (CFDs), and study their applications in data cleaning. In contrast to traditional functional ...
Philip Bohannon, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei ...
: Modeling the characteristics of specific images and individual users is a critical issue in content-based image retrieval but insufficiently addressed by the current retrieval ap...
In this paper, we propose a formal analysis approach to estimate the expected (average) data cache access time of an application across all possible program inputs. Towards this g...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...