In contrast to a large body of theoretical work on computer systems, distributed systems are not idealised constructions, unconstrained by physical world limitations. They must be...
On the Web, there is a pervasive use of XML to give lightweight semantics to textual collections. Such documentcentric XML collections require a query language that can gracefully...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...
We investigate the problem of creating and analyzing samples of relational databases to find relationships between string-valued attributes. Our focus is on identifying attribute...
A tele-operated system in a robot greatly reduces the demands on the human operator, although some human intervention is still required to perform such tasks as insulator recognit...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...