An increasing amount of data is produced in the form of text streams − these can be RSS news feeds, TV closed captions, emails, etc. We study the problem of answering keyword qu...
Vagelis Hristidis, Oscar Valdivia, Michail Vlachos...
Due to the popularity of the XML data format, several query languages for XML have been proposed, specially devised to handle data whose structure is unknown, loose, or absent. Wh...
Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Ioana Manolescu
Abstract. Training data as well as supplementary data such as usagebased click behavior may abound in one search market (i.e., a particular region, domain, or language) and be much...
Querying semantically related data sources depends on the ability to map between their schemas. Unfortunately, in most cases matching between schema is still largely performed man...
Fabien Duchateau, Zohra Bellahsene, Mark Roantree,...
A new and easy-to-implement method for direct volume rendering that uses 3D texture maps for acceleration, and incorporates directional lighting, is described. The implementation,...