Due to the structural heterogeneity of XML, queries are often interpreted approximately. This is achieved by relaxing the query and ranking the results based on their relevance to ...
In this paper we deal with the problem of finding an optimal query execution plan in database systems. We improve the analysis of a polynomial-time approximation algorithm due to M...
: Product matching aims at identifying different product offers referring to the same real-world product. Product offers are provided by different merchants and describe products u...
We present an efficient algorithm called the Quadtree Heuristic for identifying a list of similar terms for each unique term in a large document collection. Term similarity is de...
Current biological sequence comparison tools frequently fail to recognize matches between homologs when sequence similarity is below the twilight zone of less than 25% sequence id...