XML documents represent a middle range between unstructured data such as textual documents and fully structured data encoded in databases. Typically, information retrieval techniq...
Yosi Mass, Dafna Sheinwald, Benjamin Sznajder, Siv...
Efficient user-adaptable similarity search more and more increases in its importance for multimedia and spatial database systems. As a general similarity model for multi-dimension...
The semantic web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. Ontologies, a cornerstone of the semantic web,...
Anuradha Gali, Cindy X. Chen, Kajal T. Claypool, R...
Experience with relational systems has shown that distribution is an effective way of improving the scalability of query evaluation. In this paper, we show how distributed query e...
In this paper, we study the problem of auditing a batch of SQL queries: given a set of SQL queries that have been posed over a database, determine whether some subset of these quer...