To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimediaobjects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) in o...
Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sha...
Supporting ranking queries in database systems has been a popular research topic recently. However, there is a lack of study on supporting ranking queries in data warehouses where...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Integration systems typically support only a restricted set of queries over the schema they export. The reason is that the participating information sources contribute limited con...
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...