Enhanced Multimedia Meta Objects (EMMOs) are a novel approach to multimedia content modeling, combining media, semantic relationships between those media, as well as functionality ...
Query optimizers in current database systems are designed to pick a single efficient plan for a given query based on current statistical properties of the data. However, different...
Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jen...
Data sources on the web are often accessible through web interfaces that present them as relational tables, but require certain attributes to be mandatorily selected, e.g., via a w...
In vague queries, a user enters a value that represents some real world object and expects as the result the set of database values that represent this real world object even with ...
Raquel Kolitski Stasiu, Carlos A. Heuser, Roberto ...
Query segmentation is essential to query processing. It aims to tokenize query words into several semantic segments and help the search engine to improve the precision of retrieva...
Chao Zhang, Nan Sun, Xia Hu, Tingzhu Huang, Tat-Se...