The large unstructured text collections demand full-text search capabilities from IR systems. Current systems typically allow users only to connect to a single database (or site) ...
A semantic caching scheme suitable for wrappers wrapping web sources is presented. Since the web sources have typically weaker querying capabilities than conventional databases, e...
Skyline queries have gained much attention as alternative query semantics with pros (e.g.low query formulation overhead) and cons (e.g.large control over result size). To overcome ...
Access. permissions in a data warehouse are currently managed in a separate world from the sources' policies. The consequences are inconsistencies, slow response to change, a...
This paper focuses on an aspect that is widely neglected in native XML database management systems: support for concurrent transactional access. We analyze the isolation requireme...