1 We consider the problem of similarity search in applications where the cost of computing the similarity between two records is very expensive, and the similarity measure is not a...
Chris Jermaine, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Ravi Jampani, T...
Several web applications (such as processing RSS feeds or web service messages) rely on XPath-based data manipulation tools. Web developers need to use XPath queries effectively o...
Testing an SQL database system by running large sets of deterministic or stochastic SQL statements is common practice in commercial database development. However, code defects oft...
We explore the possibilities to organize a query data structure in the main memories or hard disks of a cluster computer. The query data structure serves to improve the performanc...
The application of information retrieval techniques in interactive environments requires systems capable of efficiently processing vague queries. To reach reasonable response tim...