Users of database applications, especially in the e-commerce domain, often resort to exploratory "trial-and-error" queries since the underlying data space is huge and unf...
Abhijit Kadlag, Amol V. Wanjari, Juliana Freire, J...
Abstract. The structural heterogeneity and complexity of XML repositories makes query formulation challenging for users who have little knowledge of XML. To assist its users, an XM...
Applications and services that access Web data are becoming increasingly more useful and wide-spread. Current main-stream Web query languages such as XQuery, XSLT, or SPARQL, howe...
In contrast to classical databases and IR systems, real-world information systems have to deal increasingly with very vague and diverse structures for information management and s...
Xuan Zhou, Julien Gaugaz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgan...
We discuss the design of an acquisitional query processor for data collection in sensor networks. Acquisitional issues are those that pertain to where, when, and how often data is...
Samuel Madden, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hell...