We present a new family of hybrid index maintenance strategies to be used in on-line index construction for monotonically growing text collections. These new strategies improve up...
In recent years, publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems based on XML document filtering have received much attention. In a typical pubsub system, subscribed users specify their inte...
This paper focuses on the optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics employed by Portal Catalogs like Netscape Open Directory (ODP). We ad...
In recent years, data broadcasting becomes a promising technique to design a mobile information system with power conservation, high scalability and high bandwidth utilization. Ho...
A virtual database system is software that provides unified access to multiple information sources. If the sources are overlapping in their contents and independently maintained,...