Querying XML data is a well-explored topic with powerful databasestyle query languages such as XPath and XQuery set to become W3C standards. An equally compelling paradigm for que...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Shashank ...
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...
This paper investigates the problem of incremental joins of multiple ranked data sets when the join condition is a list of arbitrary user-defined predicates on the input tuples. ...
Apostol Natsev, Yuan-Chi Chang, John R. Smith, Chu...
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
A variety of web sites and web based services produce textual lists at varying time granularities ranked according to several criteria. For example, Google Trends produces lists o...