Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...
The similarity join has become an important database primitive to support similarity search and data mining. A similarity join combines two sets of complex objects such that the r...
Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...
Today’s object-relational DBMSs (ORDBMSs) are designed to support novel application domains by providing an extensible architecture, supplemented by domain-specific database ex...
: Performance of Natural Language Interface often deteriorates due to linguistic phenomena of Semantic Symmetry and Ambiguous Modification (Katz and Lin, 2003). In this paper we pr...