In this paper, we propose a new technique for multidimensional query processing which can be widely applied in database systems. Our new technique, called tree striping, generalize...
Recently, schema mapping has found considerable interest in both research and practice. Determining matching components of database or XML schemas is needed in many applications, e...
We introduce a general framework for reasoning with prioritized propositional data by aggregation of distance functions. Our formalism is based on a possible world semantics, wher...
We present an approach to music identification based on weighted finite-state transducers and Gaussian mixture models, inspired by techniques used in large-vocabulary speech recogn...
Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...