Due to the popularity of mobile devices, more and more commercial applications have been developed on these devices. While commercial applications are mostly backed by relational ...
Van T. K. Tran, Raymond K. Wong, William K. Cheung...
The Web contains a large amount of documents and increasingly, also semantic data in the form of RDF triples. Many of these triples are annotations that are associated with docume...
Approximate query processing has emerged as a costeffective approach for dealing with the huge data volumes and stringent response-time requirements of today's decision-suppo...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Minos N. Garofalakis, Rajeev ...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...