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ICDT
2007
ACM
90views Database» more  ICDT 2007»
16 years 24 days ago
On the Expressiveness of Implicit Provenance in Query and Update Languages
Abstract. Information concerning the origin of data (that is, its provenance) is important in many areas, especially scientific recordkeeping. Currently, provenance information mu...
Peter Buneman, James Cheney, Stijn Vansummeren
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 18 days ago
Why structural hints in queries do not help XML-retrieval
For many years it has been commonly held that a user who adds structural “hints” to a query will improve precision in an element retrieval search. At INEX 2005 we conducted an...
Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Estimating the number of answers with guarantees for structured queries in p2p databases
Structured P2P overlays supporting standard database functionalities are a popular choice for building large-scale distributed data management systems. In such systems, estimating...
Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Michael Ha&szli...
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Predicting Query Performance via Classification
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity t...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
146views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
Information Sharing Across Private Databases
Literature on information integration across databases tacitly assumes that the data in each database can be revealed to the other databases. However, there is an increasing need ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Ramakris...