Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
We describe a query-driven indexing framework for scalable text retrieval over structured P2P networks. To cope with the bandwidth consumption problem that has been identified as ...
Gleb Skobeltsyn, Toan Luu, Karl Aberer, Martin Raj...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
With large amounts of correlated probabilistic data being generated in a wide range of application domains including sensor networks, information extraction, event detection etc.,...
Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...