There is a growing need, both for use within corporate intranets and within the rapidly evolving World Wide Web, to develop tools that are able to retrieve relevant textual inform...
L. J. Brown, Mariano P. Consens, Ian J. Davis, Chr...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
The variety of features available to represent multimedia data constitutes a rich pool of information. However, the plethora of data poses a challenge in terms of feature selectio...
- This article presents a framework for a XML based search system composed by three layers: data layer, logic layer and presentation layer. In all three layers XML related technolo...
Pedro Almeida, Joaquim Sousa Pinto, Joaquim Arnald...
Keys for XML data trees can uniquely identify nodes based on the data values on some of their subnodes, either in the entire tree or relatively to some selected subtrees. Such keys...
Flavio Ferrarotti, Sven Hartmann, Sebastian Link, ...