XQuery is a powerful functional language to query XML data. This paper presents a bidirectional interpretation of XQuery to address the problem of updating XML data through materi...
There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
—Web-scale image search engines (e.g. Google Image Search, Bing Image Search) mostly rely on surrounding text features. It is difficult for them to interpret users’ search int...
Xiaoou Tang, Ke Liu, Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Xiaogan...
Many users and applications require the integration of semi-structured data from autonomous, heterogeneous Web sources. Over the last years mediator systems have emerged that use d...
Precise modeling is essential to the success of the OMG’s Model Driven Architecture initiative. At the modeling level (M1) OCL allows for the precision needed to write executable...