This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...
We consider a fragment of XPath named `forward-XPath', which contains all descendant and rightwards sibling axes as well as data equality and inequality tests. The satisfiabi...
Abstract. A faceted taxonomy is a set of taxonomies, each describing a given domain from a different aspect, or facet. The indexing of domain objects is done through conjunctive c...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Anastasia Analyti, Nicolas Spyra...
—In-network aggregation has become a promising technique for improving the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks. Aggregating data at various nodes in the network result...