Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...
— XML is commonly supported by SQL database systems. However, existing mappings of XML to tables can only deliver satisfactory query performance for limited use cases. In this pa...
Liang Jeff Chen, Philip A. Bernstein, Peter Carlin...
We present Stretch `n' Shrink, a query design framework that explicitly takes into account user preferences about the desired answer size, and subsequently modifies the query...
Internet search engines have popularized the keywordbased search paradigm. While traditional database management systems offer powerful query languages, they do not allow keyword-...
We have observed in recent years a growing interest in similarity search on large collections of biological sequences. Contributing to the interest, this paper presents a method fo...