We are witnessing in recent years growing interest for location-dependent information services among mobile users. This paper examines the issue of processing locationdependent qu...
Jianliang Xu, Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
Twig pattern matching (TPM) is the core operation of XML query processing. Existing approaches rely on either efficient data structures or novel labeling/indexing schemes to reduce...
Although data stored in XML is of increasing importance, most existing data repositories are still managed by relational database systems. In light of this, recent XML database re...
William M. Shui, Franky Lam, Damien K. Fisher, Ray...
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...
Efficient query processing is one of the basic needs for data mining algorithms. Clustering algorithms, association rule mining algorithms and OLAP tools all rely on efficient quer...