Probabilistic top-k ranking queries have been extensively studied due to the fact that data obtained can be uncertain in many real applications. A probabilistic top-k ranking quer...
In order to index text fields in XML databases for similarity queries, M-Trees may be applied. However, some datasets experiments using M-Trees for this purpose resulted in low qu...
According to the database outsourcing model, a data owner delegates database functionality to a thirdparty service provider, which answers queries received from clients. Authentic...
With XQuery becoming the standard language for querying XML, and the relational SQL platform being recognized as an important platform to store and process XML, the SQL/XML standa...
We introduce a model of uncertainty where documents are not uniquely identified in a reference network, and some links may be incorrect. It generalizes the probabilistic approach ...