A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
Martens et al. defined a pattern-based specification language equivalent in expressive power to the widely adopted XML Schema definitions (XSDs). This language consists of rules...
Probabilistic data is coming as a new deluge along with the technical advances on geographical tracking, multimedia processing, sensor network and RFID. While similarity search is...
This paper presents a new method of developing a large-scale hyponymy relation database by combining Wikipedia and other Web documents. We attach new words to the hyponymy databas...
For developing data warehouse (DW) and OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems, the dominant relational database reaches its limitations. On the way of the development, object...