Query substitution is an important problem in information retrieval. Much work focuses on how to find substitutes for any given query. In this paper, we study how to efficiently ...
XML documents are typically queried with a combination of value search and structure search. While querying by values can leverage traditional database technologies, evaluating st...
Haifeng Jiang, Hongjun Lu, Wei Wang 0011, Beng Chi...
In recent years it has been argued that when XML encodings become complex, DOM trees are no longer adequate for query processing. Alternative representations of XML documents, suc...
Complex social and information network search becomes important with a variety of applications. In the core of these applications, lies a common and critical problem: Given a labe...
Arijit Khan, Nan Li, Xifeng Yan, Ziyu Guan, Supriy...
Assume a network (V, E) where a subset of the nodes in V are active. We consider the problem of selecting a set of k active nodes that best explain the observed activation state, ...