Web-database systems are nowadays an integral part of everybody's life, with applications ranging from monitoring/trading stock portfolios, to personalized blog aggregation a...
This paper studies a new query on uncertain data, called k-selection query. Given an uncertain dataset of N objects, where each object is associated with a preference score and a p...
Xingjie Liu, Mao Ye, Jianliang Xu, Yuan Tian, Wang...
Peer-to-Peer infrastructures are emerging as one of the important data management infrastructures in the World Wide Web. So far, however, most work has focused on simple P2P networ...
Hadhami Dhraief, Alfons Kemper, Wolfgang Nejdl, Ch...
Most database systems allow query processing over attributes that are derived at query runtime (e.g., user-defined functions and remote data calls to web services), making them e...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
An expert finding is a very common task among enterprise search activities, while its usual retrieval performance is far from the quality of the Web search. Query modeling helps t...