Prior research into search system scalability has primarily addressed query processing efficiency [1, 2, 3] or indexing efficiency [3], or has presented some arbitrary system arch...
Interest in XML databases has been growing over the last few years. In this paper, we study the problem of incorporating probabilistic information into XML databases. We propose th...
Given their simple nature, the success of keyword based retrieval systems is astonishing. Although these methods seemingly only process words (and their word counts), they rely on...
Current geographic information systems (GISs) have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little support to those users ...
Abstract: In many geographical applications there is a need to model spatial phenomena not simply by sharp objects but rather through indeterminate or vague concepts. To support su...