Abstract. We investigate the experimental effectiveness of query rewriting over XML security views. Our model consists of access control policies specified over DTDs with XPath e...
Query folding is a technique for determining how a query may be answered using a given set of resources, which may include materialized views, cached results of previous queries, ...
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
We study visibly pushdown automata (VPA) models for expressing and evaluating queries, expressed using MSO formulas, on words with a nesting structure (like XML documents). We de...