Numerous genomic annotations are currently stored in different web-accessible databanks that scientists need to mine with user-defined queries and in a batch mode to orderly integ...
Marco Masseroli, Andrea Stella, Natalia Meani, Myr...
XQuery is the emerging standard for querying XML data sources. XLive is a light XML/XQuery mediator developed at University of Versailles whose engine processes an XML algebra der...
Tuyet-Tram Dang-Ngoc, Georges Gardarin, Nicolas Tr...
We present a “black-box” approach to estimating query cardinality that has no knowledge of query execution plans and data distribution, yet provides accurate estimates. It doe...
This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query...
Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Wei...
As an alternative to previous studies on extracting class attributes from unstructured text, which consider either Web documents or query logs as the source of textual data, A boo...