Accessing the Web: From Search to Integration

Summary: Tutorial on enabling Web information access end-to-end from search to integration, framed as a call to DB researchers. Highlights Web-unique traits, shifted DB agenda, and open problems, inviting the database community to tackle Web-scale access. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3894
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 6.8738771e-05
Overall Rank: 4,145 | 71.57%
DOI: 10.1145/1142473.1142601

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Junghoo Cho (University of California Los Angeles)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chang_sigmod06,
        title = {{Accessing the Web: From Search to Integration}},
        author = {Chang, Kevin Chen-Chuan and Cho, Junghoo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142601},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142601},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,724	A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data	2007	VLDB	8.2048095e-05
9,650	Aggregate Estimation Over Dynamic Hidden Web Databases	2014	VLDB	5.2427667e-05
9,684	Attribute Domain Discovery for Hidden Web Databases	2011	SIGMOD	5.2352357e-05
12,376	MOBIES: Mobile-Interface Enhancement Service for Hidden Web Database	2011	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 0 of 0 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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