Statistical estimation and approximate query processing have become increasingly prevalent applications for database systems. However, approximation is usually of little use witho...
Extracting semantic relationships between entities from text documents is challenging in information extraction and important for deep information processing and management. This ...
XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for representing data in the World Wide Web. Sophisticated query engines that allow users to effectively tap the data stored in XML d...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kristin Tufte, Chun Zhan...
There is much current interest in publishing and viewing databases as XML documents. The general benefits of this approach follow from the popularity of XML and the tool set avai...
OLAP is an important tool in decision support. With the help of domain knowledge, such as hierarchies of attribute values, OLAP helps the user observe the effects of various decis...