Partial evaluation has recently proven an effective technique for evaluating Boolean XPath queries over a fragmented tree that is distributed over a number of sites. What left ope...
While information retrieval (IR) and databases (DB) have been developed independently, there have been emerging requirements that both data management and efficient text retrieva...
Jinsuk Kim, Du-Seok Jin, Yunsoo Choi, Chang-Hoo Je...
This paper addresses a major weakness of current technologies for the Semantic Web, namely the lack of a principled means to represent and reason about uncertainty. This not only h...
Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, Kathryn B. Laskey, Kennet...
The advantages of a COG (Component Object Graphic) approach to the composition of PDF pages have been set out in a previous paper [1]. However, if pages are to be composed in this...
Cache groups are a powerful concept for database caching, which is used to relieve the backend database load and to keep referenced data close to the application programs at the &q...