Keyword search is a user-friendly mechanism for retrieving XML data in web and scientific applications. An intuitively compelling but vaguely defined goal is to identify matches t...
The content-based publish/subscribe (pub/sub) paradigm for system design is becoming increasingly popular, offering unique benefits for a large number of data-intensive applicatio...
Poor quality data is prevalent in databases due to a variety of reasons, including transcription errors, lack of standards for recording database fields, etc. To be able to query ...
Byung-Won On, Nick Koudas, Dongwon Lee, Divesh Sri...
Abstract--Expertise matching, aiming to find the alignment between experts and queries, is a common problem in many real applications such as conference paper-reviewer assignment, ...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...