Digital libraries are more and more available on the web. However, retrieving information in these libraries is not easy because of sources heterogeneity and distribution. Thus, w...
This paper introduces a new family of Generic and Progressive algorithms (GPAC, for short) for continuous mobile queries over mobile objects. GPAC provides a general skeleton that...
As web search providers seek to improve both relevance and response times, they are challenged by the ever-increasing tax of automated search query traffic. Third party systems in...
Gregory Buehrer, Jack W. Stokes, Kumar Chellapilla
Abstract. The widespread adoption of XML necessitates structureaware systems that can effectively retrieve information from XML document collections. This paper reports on the par...
Jovan Pehcevski, James A. Thom, Seyed M. M. Tahagh...
Path expressions are the principal means of locating data in a hierarchical model. But path expressions are brittle because they often depend on the structure of data and break if...