An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
We present a new algorithm for efficient occlusion culling using hardware occlusion queries. The algorithm significantly improves on previous techniques by making better use of te...
This paper identifies requirements for querying and accessing context information in mobile and pervasive computing environments. Furthermore it studies existing query languages s...
Roland Reichle, Michael Wagner, Mohammad Ullah Kha...
The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessin...
The integration of facts derived from information extraction systems into existing knowledge bases requires a system to disambiguate entity mentions in the text. This is challengi...
Mark Dredze, Paul McNamee, Delip Rao, Adam Gerber,...