Abstract-- We investigate techniques to automatically decompose any XQuery query into subqueries, that can be executed near their data sources; i.e., function-shipping. In this sce...
We explore the relationship between time and relevance using TREC ad-hoc queries. A type of query is identified that favors very recent documents. We propose a time-based language...
We describe a functional database language OR-SML for handling disjunctive information in database queries, and its implementation on top of Standard ML 12]. The core language has ...