The Strudel system applies concepts from database management systems to the process of building Web sites. Strudel’s key idea is separating the management of the site’s data, t...
Regular path queries are a way of declaratively expressing queries on graphs as regular-expression-like patterns that are matched against paths in the graph. There are two kinds o...
Yanhong A. Liu, Tom Rothamel, Fuxiang Yu, Scott D....
Rank-aware query processing has become essential for many applications that return to the user only the top-k objects based on the individual user's preferences. Top-k queries...
Abstract— Developing a full-fledged cost-based XQuery optimizer is a fairly complex task. Nowadays, there is little knowledge concerning suitable cost formulae and optimization ...
—In recent years, there has been a move toward supporting the human element of Web search beyond a simple query box and a ranked list of search results. In this paper, we present...