In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
With this work we aim to make a three-fold contribution. We first address the issue of supporting efficiently queries over string-attributes involving prefix, suffix, containmen...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
We study if and when the inequality dp(H) ≤ rel∆(H) holds for schemas H in chromosomes that are structured as trees. The disruption probability dp(H) is the probability that a...
Image annotations allow users to access a large image database with textual queries. There have been several studies on automatic image annotation utilizing machine learning techn...