Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
In a recent paper by Hellerstein [15], a tight relationship was conjectured between the number of strata of a Datalog¬ program and the number of “coordination stages” require...
DarGridⅡ is an implemented database gird system whose goal is to provide a semantic solution for integrating database resources on the web. Although many algorithms have been pro...
Xiaoqing Zheng, Huajun Chen, Zhaohui Wu, Yuxin Mao
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...
Most search systems for querying large document collections---for example, web search engines---are based on well-understood information retrieval principles