We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
Traditional optimizers fail to pick good execution plans, when faced with increasingly complex queries and large data sets. This failure is even more acute in the context of XQuery...
Riham Abdel Kader, Maurice van Keulen, Peter A. Bo...
Acronyms are widely used in many domains to abbreviate and stress important concepts. Due to its dynamicity and unbounded nature, manual attempts to compose a global scale reposito...
Social media are constructed from the collective contributions of potentially millions of individuals and present an increasingly common and large scale form of database. As these...
Abstract. Cryptographic operations are essential for many security-critical systems. Reasoning about information flow in such systems is challenging because typical (noninterferenc...