In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
A major application area of information systems technology and multimedia content management is that of support systems for engineering processes. This includes the particularly im...
Sebastian Bossung, Hans-Werner Sehring, Michael Sk...
Abstract. Products within a product family are composed of different component configurations where components have different variable features and a large amount of dependency re...
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
In this paper, we propose a new strategy for optimizing the placement of bin boundaries to minimize the cost of query evaluation using bitmap indices with binning. For attributes ...