Location-aware environments are characterized by a large number of objects and a large number of continuous queries. Both the objects and continuous queries may change their locati...
— Many applications require sorting a table over multiple sort orders: generation of multiple reports from a table, evaluation of a complex query that involves multiple instances...
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...
Keyword search is considered to be an effective information discovery method for both structured and semistructured data. In XML keyword search, query semantics is based on the con...
Content-based dissemination of XML data using the publishsubscribe paradigm is an effective means to deliver relevant data to interested data consumers. To meet the performance ch...