The idea of building query-oriented routing indices has changed the way of improving keyword search efficiency from the basis as it can learn the content distribution from the que...
This paper presents a system for efficient data transformations between XML and relational databases, called XML Data Mediator (XDM). XDM enables the transformation by externalizi...
Nianjun Zhou, George A. Mihaila, Dikran S. Melikse...
We present the Lixto project, which is both a research project in database theory and a commercial enterprise that develops Web data extraction (wrapping) and Web service definiti...
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Robert Baumgartner,...
This paper describes a novel method which extends the search algorithm of a k-d tree for aligning and merging range images. If the nearest neighbor point is far from a query, many...
Intervals represent a fundamental data type for temporal, scientific, and spatial databases where time stamps and point data are extended to time spans and range data, respectively...