XML is fast becoming the standard format to store, exchange and publish over the web, and is getting embedded in applications. Two challenges in handling XML are its size (the XML...
Paolo Ferragina, Fabrizio Luccio, Giovanni Manzini...
Querying XML data is a well-explored topic with powerful databasestyle query languages such as XPath and XQuery set to become W3C standards. An equally compelling paradigm for que...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Shashank ...
Workflows are widely used for representing business processes, web services, scientific experiments, and activities in daily life, like recipes. There is an increasing need for peo...
Building content-based search tools for feature-rich data has been a challenging problem because feature-rich data such as audio recordings, digital images, and sensor data are in...
Qin Lv, William Josephson, Zhe Wang, Moses Charika...
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...