In this paper, we describe our experiences in building and evolving an XQuery engine with a focus on data and service federation use cases. The engine that we discuss is a core co...
Michael Blow, Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey,...
The growing demand for large-scale data mining and data analysis applications has led both industry and academia to design new types of highly scalable data-intensive computing pl...
Yingyi Bu, Bill Howe, Magdalena Balazinska, Michae...
Order-based queries over XML data include XPath navigation axes such as following-sibling and following. In this paper, we present holistic algorithms that evaluate such order-bas...
Zografoula Vagena, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava,...
Processing of top-k queries has been attracting considerable attention. Much of the work assumes distributed data, with each site holding a different set of attributes for the sam...
As Chinese is not alphabetic and the input of Chinese characters into computer is still a difficult and unsolved problem, voice retrieval of information becomes apparently an imp...