XQuery is known to be a powerful XML query language with many bells and whistles. For many common queries we do not need all the expressive power of XQuery. We investigate the eff...
Jan Hidders, Stefania Marrara, Jan Paredaens, Roel...
Informationgathering requires locating and integrating data froma set of distributed informationsources. These sources maycontain overlapping data and can comefrom different types...
Data access prediction has been proposed as a mechanism to overcome latency lag, and more recently as a means of conserving energy in mobile systems. We present a fully adaptive p...
James Larkby-Lahet, Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed...
Traditional workload management methods mainly focus on the current system status while information about the interaction between queued and running transactions is largely ignore...
Gang Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Curt J. Ellmann, Mi...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...