Path expressions are the principal means of locating data in a hierarchical model. But path expressions are brittle because they often depend on the structure of data and break if...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
In our research on superimposed information management, we have developed applications where information elements in the superimposed layer serve to annotate, comment, restructure...
Sudarshan Murthy, David Maier, Lois M. L. Delcambr...
Themost costly aspect of gathering information over the Internet is that of transferring data over the networkto answer the user’s query. Wemaketwo contributions in this paperth...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...