Data integration systems offer users a uniform interface to a set of data sources. Previous work has typically assumed that the data sources are independent of each other; however...
The problem of finding an optimal bipartition of a rectangle set has a direct impact on query performance of dynamic R-trees. During update operations, overflowed nodes need to be...
We study and present our findings on two closely related problems on xpath rewriting using views when both the view and the query are tree patterns involving /,// and []. First, g...
Recently, there has been much interest in processing skyline queries for various applications that include decision making, personalized services, and search pruning. Skyline queri...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed E. Khalefa, Mohamed ...
Recent work in supervised learning of term-based retrieval models has shown significantly improved accuracy can often be achieved via better model estimation [2, 10, 11, 17]. In ...