In outsourced database (ODB) systems the database owner publishes its data through a number of remote servers, with the goal of enabling clients at the edge of the network to acce...
Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios...
We consider the polynomial time learnability of finite unions of ordered tree patterns with internal structured variables, in the query learning model of Angluin (1988). An ordered...
Abstract. This text motivates and de nes a generic model for interactive online or o ine product catalogs. Based on a detailed requirements analysis, the data model is de ned usi...
The general problem of answering top-k queries can be modeled using lists of data items sorted by their local scores. The most efficient algorithm proposed so far for answering to...
Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...