Programmers seek to answer questions as they investigate the functioning of a software system, such as "which execution path is being taken in this case?" Programmers at...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
Keyword search in relational databases has been extensively studied. Given a relational database, a keyword query finds a set of interconnected tuple structures connected by fore...
One popular form of semantic search observed in several modern search engines is to recognize query patterns that trigger instant answers or domain-specific search, producing sem...
Background: Protein structure comparison is a fundamental task in structural biology. While the number of known protein structures has grown rapidly over the last decade, searchin...
Lei Zhang, James Bailey, Arun Siddharth Konagurthu...