Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
Abstract. Query optimization is an important functionality of modern database systems and often based on estimating the selectivity of queries before actually executing them. Well-...
Simulation is a low cost alternative to experimentation on real-world physical systems. Grid technology enables coordinated use of and secure access to distributed computing resou...
Xinjun Chen, Wentong Cai, Stephen John Turner, Yon...
We describe the DAIMON system for data integration of nomadic data. DAIMON is based on an extension of the mediator-wrapper architecture, where each node is a mediator of its own ...
Constantinos V. Katsaros, Ioannis L. Niarhos, Vasi...
Structurally recursive XML queries are an important query class that follows the structure of XML data. At present, it is difficult for XQuery to type and optimize structurally re...