Management and retrieval of large volumes of text can be expensive in both space and time. Moreover, the range of document sizes in a large collection such as trec presents difficu...
Alistair Moffat, Ron Sacks-Davis, Ross Wilkinson, ...
Processing a twig pattern query in XML document includes structural search and content search. Most existing algorithms only focus on structural search. They treat content nodes th...
In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...
The development of high-throughput genome sequencing and protein structure determination techniques have provided researchers with a wealth of biological data. Integrated analysis...
William M. Shui, Raymond K. Wong, Stephen C. Graha...
Answering queries using views is a well-established technique in databases. In this context, two outstanding problems can be formulated. The first one consists in deciding whethe...