: This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the TopX search engine, an extensive framework for unified indexing and querying large collections of unstructured, semistructured...
This paper proposes methodologies to control the access of B-tree-indexed data in a batch and real-time fashion. Algorithms are proposed to insert, query, delete, and rebalance B-...
E cient data-parallel spatial join algorithms for pmr quadtrees and R-trees, common spatial data structures, are presented. The domain consists of planar line segment data i.e., Bu...
Abstract. Motivated by our work on object-oriented Content Management, this paper proposes an extensible formal framework for delta and merging strategies, each applicable to a spe...
Abstract. Uncertainty is inherently ubiquitous in data of real applications, and those uncertain data can be naturally represented by the XML. Matching twig pattern against XML dat...