Semistructured data, in particular XML, has emerged as one of the primary means for information exchange and content management. The power of XML allows authors to structure a doc...
We present a novel solution for authenticating printed paper documents by utilizing the inherent non–repeatable randomness existing in the printing process. For a document print...
XML parsing is generally known to have poor performance characteristics relative to transactional database processing. Yet, its potentially fatal impact on overall database perfor...
This paper describes the procedure adopted by the three co-ordinators of the CLEF 2003 question answering track (ITC-irst, UNED and ILLC) to create the question set for the monoli...
Abstract. In the context of XML data management systems, the estimation of query cardinality is becoming more and more important: the information provided by a query result estimat...