— As person names are non-unique, the same name on different Web pages might or might not refer to the same real-world person. This entity identification problem is one of the m...
A conventional materialized view blindly materializes and maintains all rows of a view, even rows that are never accessed. We propose a more flexible materialization strategy aime...
Jingren Zhou, Jonathan Goldstein, Luping Ding, Per...
Keyword search for smallest lowest common ancestors (SLCAs) in XML data has recently been proposed as a meaningful way to identify interesting data nodes in XML data where their s...
Scalability is the key issue in making content-based copy detection (CBCD) methods practical for very large image and video databases. Since copies are transformed versions of ori...
Aggregating spatial objects is a necessary step in generating spatial data cubes to support roll-up/drill-down operations. Current approaches face performance bottleneck issues wh...