Accessing and integrating data from heterogeneous sources has become a significant challenge. So-called adapters provide the functionality for translating SQL queries into querie...
Querying live media streams captured by various sensors is becoming a challenging problem, due to the data heterogeneity and the lack of a unifying data model capable of accessing...
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity t...
XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for representing data in the World Wide Web. Sophisticated query engines that allow users to effectively tap the data stored in XML d...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kristin Tufte, Chun Zhan...