A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
Efficient multi-dimensional data search has received much attention in centralized systems. However, its implementation in large-scale distributed systems is not a trivial job and...
The current Information Retrieval Systems return hundreds or thousands of documents in response to a query. Users consider only the first 20 or 30, but documents are often sorted a...
David Bueno, Ricardo Conejo, Amos David, Cristina ...
Keyword search in XML repositories is a powerful tool for interactive data exploration. Much work has recently been done on making XML search aware of relationship information emb...
Andrey Balmin, Latha S. Colby, Emiran Curtmola, Qu...
: Information-filtering systems constitute a critical component of modern information-seeking applications. As the number of users grows and the amount of information available bec...