Unlike traditional database queries, keyword queries do not adhere to predefined syntax and are often dirty with irrelevant words from natural languages. This makes accurate and e...
Spatial and temporal data are critical components in many applications. This is especially true in analytical domains such as national security and criminal investigation. Often, t...
Matthew Perry, Amit P. Sheth, Farshad Hakimpour, P...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. This structured data is increasingly exposed using information extraction systems, which generate structured relation...
A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...
Query optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively using transformation rules usually apply all possible rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is prod...