Structural join operations are central to evaluating queries against XML data, and are typically responsible for consuming a lion's share of the query processing time. Thus, ...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
This paper addresses the efficient processing of similarity queries in metric spaces, where data is horizontally distributed across a P2P network. The proposed approach does not r...
An important issue arising from XML query relaxation is how to efficiently search the top-k best answers from a large number of XML data sources, while minimizing the searching cos...
Enterprise-level applications are becoming complex with the need for event and stream processing, multiple query processing and data analysis over heterogeneous data sources such ...