The literature provides a wide range of techniques to assess and improve the quality of data.
Due to the diversity and complexity of these techniques, research has recently focused on …

Numerous irregular graph datasets, for example social networks or web graphs, may contain
even trillions of edges. Often, their structure changes over time and they have domain …

This database theory book provides a focused presentation of the core material on relational
databases, and presents a number of advanced topics in a unified framework. Some of the …

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …

Schema versioning is one of a number of related areas dealing with the same general
problem—that of using multiple heterogeneous schemata for various database related tasks …

The problem of defining global views of heterogeneous data sources to support querying
and cooperation activities is becoming more and more important due to the availability of …

Information is a valuable resource to an organization. Computer software provides an
efficient means of processing information, and database systems are becoming an …

Data mining evolved as a collection of applicative problems and e cient solution algorithms
relative to rather peculiar problems, all focused on the discovery of relevant information …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

Functional and inclusion dependency discovery is important to knowledge discovery,
database semantics analysis, database design, and data quality assessment. Motivated by …