Research on query optimization has focused almost exclusively on reducing query execution time, while important qualities such as consistency and predictability have largely been ...
The ability to approximately answer aggregation queries accurately and efficiently is of great benefit for decision support and data mining tools. In contrast to previous sampling...
A protection profile for high-robustness separation kernels has recently been validated and several implementations are under development. However, medium-robustness separation ke...
Rance J. DeLong, Thuy D. Nguyen, Cynthia E. Irvine...
The Web has been rapidly "deepened" by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query interfaces. As an essential task toward integrating these m...
Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...