Indexing XML is crucial for efficient XML query processing. We propose a compact tree (Ctree) for XML indexing, which provides not only concise path summaries at group level but a...
Full-text information retrieval systems have traditionally been designed for archival environments. They often provide little or no support for adding new documents to an existing...
semantic knowledge all concurrent partitionedAbstract updates to an object must be treated as conflicting, andOptimistic replication is an important technique for merged manually b...
OLAP queries are typically heavy-weight and ad-hoc thus requiring high storage capacity and processing power. In this paper, we address this problem using a database cluster which...
Alexandre A. B. Lima, Marta Mattoso, Patrick Valdu...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...