In this paper we study the problem of deciding whether a regular path query over views in data-integration systems can be re-expressed without recursion. The problem becomes chall...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
Nowadays, the vast volume of collected digital data obliges us to employ processing methods like pattern recognition and data mining in order to reduce the complexity of data manag...
Ilaria Bartolini, Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania, ...
We introduce a new model for semantic annotation and retrieval from image databases. The new model is based on a probabilistic formulation that poses annotation and retrieval as c...
— In this paper, we focus on efficient keyword query processing for XML data based on SLCA and ELCA semantics. We propose for each keyword a novel form of inverted list, which i...
Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Wei Wang, Tok Wang Ling...