XML documents are extremely verbose since the "schema" is repeated for every "record" in the document. While a variety of compressors are available to address ...
In this paper, we consider a data model for uncertain trajectories of moving objects. In our model, the trajectory is a vector of uniform stochastic processes. We study “univers...
III this paper we address the problem of controlling the execution of a query optimizer. We describe a control for the optimization process that is based on planning. The controll...
This paper describes clime, a web-based legal advisory system with a multilingual natural language interface. clime is a `proof-of-concept' system which answers queries relat...
Roger Evans, Paul Piwek, Lynne J. Cahill, Neil Tip...
One of the problems associated with XML databases is the poor performance of XPath queries. Although this has attracted much attention by the research community, solutions are eith...