XML suffers from the major limitation of high redundancy. Even if compression can be beneficial for XML data, however, once compressed, the data can be seldom browsed and queried i...
Andrei Arion, Angela Bonifati, Gianni Costa, Sandr...
In a binary symmetric relationship, A is related to B if and only if B is related to A. Symmetric relationships between k participating entities can be represented as multisets of...
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
We have created the first image search engine based entirely on faces. Using simple text queries such as "smiling men with blond hair and mustaches," users can search thr...
The complexity, cost, and down-time currently created by the database schema evolution process is the source of incessant problems in the life of information systems and a major s...