There have been several techniques proposed for building statistics for static XML data. However, very little work has been done in the area of building XML statistics for data so...
: The World-Wide-Web contains data that cannot be constrained by a schema. Another source for such data is heterogenous corporate systems which are integrated in order to get bette...
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...
Existing approaches for optimizing queries in data integration use decoupled strategies–attempting to optimize coverage and cost in two separate phases. Since sources tend to ha...
Determiningthe convex hull ofa point set isa basic operation for many applications of pattern recognition, image processing, statistics, and data mining. Although the corresponding...