An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Although speech and language processing techniques achieved a relative maturity during the last decade, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task because of the ...
Partitioned query processing is an effective method to process continuous queries with large stateful operators in a distributed systems. This method typically partitions input da...
Despite the importance of ranked queries in numerous applications involving multi-criteria decision making, they are not efficiently supported by traditional database systems. In ...
Abstract This paper describes the overall design and architecture of the Timber XML database system currently being implemented at the University of Michigan. The system is based u...
H. V. Jagadish, Shurug Al-Khalifa, Adriane Chapman...