Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL require a sorted stream of tuples for efficient processing. Therefore, processing complex relational queries relies on efficient a...
Multi-pattern matching involves matching a data item against a large database of “signature” patterns. Existing algorithms for multipattern matching do not scale well as the s...
Ramakrishnan Kandhan, Nikhil Teletia, Jignesh M. P...
This paper examines the use of XML for modern extractionbased question answering (QA). We feel that the XML community has taken too narrow a view of structured retrieval, and that...
Currently, only few XML data management systems support concurrent access to an XML document, and if they do, they typically apply variations of hierarchical locking to handle XML...
The wide spread use of cellular phones, handheld devices, and GPS-like technology enables location-aware environments where virtually all objects are aware of their locations. Loca...