Abstract. Many different index structures have been proposed for spatial databases to support efficient query processing. However, most of these index structures suffer from an exp...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
Efficient querying of XML streams will be one of the fundamental features of next-generation information systems. In this paper we propose the TurboXPath path processor, which acce...
Scientific and intelligence applications have special data handling needs. In these settings, data does not fit the standard model of short coded records that had dominated the dat...
Web-based information systems provide to their users the ability to interleave querying and browsing during their information discovery efforts. The MIX system provides an API cal...