Several native approaches to storing large XML data sets exist. In all of these approaches the internal data representation is designed to support any ad-hoc XQuery query. In this...
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...
This paper investigates a class of mobile wireless sensor networks that are unconnected most of the times; we refer to them as delay–tolerant wireless sensor networks (DTWSN). T...
As the popularity of XML keeps growing rapidly, XML compliant structured document management becomes an interesting and compelling research area. Query optimization for structured...
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 ...