Abstract. In the context of XML data management systems, the estimation of query cardinality is becoming more and more important: the information provided by a query result estimat...
An ordinal fuzzy linguistic Information Retrieval System (IRS) based on a multi-level weighting scheme to represent the user queries, in a more flexible way, is proposed. The IRS a...
Abstract. To provide complex query processing in peer-to-peer systems has attracted much attention in both academic and industrial community. We present GChord, a scalable techniqu...
This paper proposes a novel view of the information generated by relevance feedback. Latent semantic analysis is adapted to this view to extract useful inter-query information. Th...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...