There is an increase in the number of data sources that can be queried across the WWW. Such sources typically support HTML forms-based interfaces and search engines query collecti...
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
A new trend in the field of pattern matching is to design indexing data structures which take space very close to that required by the indexed text (in entropy-compressed form) an...
Wing-Kai Hon, Rahul Shah, Sharma V. Thankachan, Je...
Accurate prediction of operator execution time is a prerequisite for database query optimization. Although extensively studied for conventional disk-based DBMSs, cost modeling in ...
Stefan Manegold, Peter A. Boncz, Martin L. Kersten
We aim to specify program transformations in a declarative style, and then to generate executable program transformers from such specifications. Many transformations require non-t...
Ganesh Sittampalam, Oege de Moor, Ken Friis Larsen