The need to manage diverse information sources has triggered the rise of very loosely structured data models, known as "dataspace models." Such information management sy...
George H. L. Fletcher, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk V...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
Even though the large body of knowledge of relational query optimization techniques can be utilized as a starting point for object-oriented query optimization the full exploitatio...
The rapidly growing web technologies and electronic commerce applications have stimulated the need of personalized and group decision support functionalities in eTourism intermedia...
Recently the LATL has undertaken the development of a multilingual translation system based on a symbolic parsing technology and on a transfer-based translation model. A crucial c...