A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
Both semantic and type-based query optimization rely on the idea that queries often exhibit non-trivial rewritings if the state space of the database is restricted. Despite their ...
Michael Meier 0002, Michael Schmidt, Fang Wei, Geo...
— recently, search engines become more critical for finding information over the World Wide Web where web content growing fast, the user's satisfaction of search engine resu...
Hamada M. Zahera, Gamal F. El-Hady, W. F. Abd El-W...
Object-oriented database management systems are often motivated by their support for new emerging application areas such as computer-aided design and analysis systems. The object-o...
Linguistic research and natural language processing employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural...
Steven Bird, Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Haejoong ...