XML databases often contain documents comprising structured text. Therefore, it is important to integrate "information retrieval style" query evaluation, which is well-s...
Data mining on large relational databases has gained popularity and its significance is well recognized. However, the performance of SQL based data mining is known to fall behind ...
In this paper, we propose a novel compact tree (Ctree) for XML indexing, which provides not only concise path summaries at the group level but also detailed child-parent links at ...
Ad hoc networks, being able to organize themselves without user intervention, can easily provide their users with mobility, multimedia support and group communication. However, the...
Managing uncertain data using probabilistic frameworks has attracted much interest lately in the database literature, and a central computational challenge is probabilistic infere...