The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...
Existing HTML mark-up is used only to indicate the structure and lay-out of documents, but not the document semantics. As a result web documents are difficult to be semantically p...
XML structural joins, which evaluate the containment (ancestor-descendant) relationships between XML elements, are important operations of XML query processing. Estimating structu...
Since WWW encourages hypertext and hypermedia document authoring (e.g. HTML or XML), Web authors tend to create documents that are composed of multiple pages connected with hyperl...
Content-based image retrieval with relevant feedback has been widely adopted as the query model of choice for improved effectiveness in image retrieval. The effectiveness of thi...