In this paper, we study query evaluation on Active XML documents (AXML for short), a new generation of XML documents that has recently gained popularity. AXML documents are XML do...
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
Abstract: XML documents are widely used as a generic container for textual contents. As they are increasingly growing in size, XML databases have come up to efficiently store and q...
We explore how Private Information Retrieval (PIR) can help users keep their sensitive information from being leaked in an SQL query. We show how to retrieve data from a relational...
The Web contains an abundance of useful semi-structured information that can and should be mined. Types of structure include hyperlinks between pages, structure within hypertext p...