User modeling for information retrieval has mostly been studied to improve the effectiveness of information access in centralized repositories. In this paper we explore user model...
As XQuery nears standardization, more sophisticated XQuery applications are emerging, which often exploit the entire language and are applied to non-trivial XML sources. We propos...
Object-oriented and object-relational DBMS support setvalued attributes, which are a natural and concise way to model complex information. However, there has been limited research...
We consider fast two-sided error-tolerant search that is robust against errors both on the query side (type alogrithm, find documents with algorithm) as well as on the document si...
An -appro ximate quantile summary of a sequence of N elements is a data structure that can answer quantile queries about the sequence to within a precision of N. We presen t a new...