An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Abstract--Expertise matching, aiming to find the alignment between experts and queries, is a common problem in many real applications such as conference paper-reviewer assignment, ...
Scientific data of importance to biologists in the Humitn Genome Project resides not only in conventional da.tabases, but in structured files maintained in a number of different f...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Kyle Hart, G. Ch...
In database query processing, actual run-time conditions (e.g., actual selectivities and actual available memory) very often differ from compile-time expectations of run-time cond...
Data streaming systems are becoming essential for monitoring applications such as financial analysis and network intrusion detection. These systems often have to process many simi...
Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Chung Wu, Michael J. Frankl...