In applications such as vision and molecular biology, a common problem is to find the similar objects to a given target (according to some distance measure) in a large database. T...
A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...
This paper argues that most queries in object-oriented databases require traversing from one object to another in the aggregation hierarchy. Thus, the connections between objects ...
Retrieving information from EHRs that are represented as XML documents is an important aspect for the users of this domain. Such retrieving may lead to some vague queries. There i...
We are witnessing an exciting revival of interest in recursive Datalog queries in a variety of emerging application domains such as data integration, information extraction, netwo...
Shan Shan Huang, Todd Jeffrey Green, Boon Thau Loo