We consider the problem of creating a sample view of a database table. A sample view is an indexed, materialized view that permits efficient sampling from an arbitrary range query...
Research on buying behavior indicates that buying guides perform an important role in the overall buying process. However, while many buying guides can be found on the Web, findin...
In this paper we consider the problem of searching for a node or an object (i.e., piece of data, file, etc.) in a large network. Applications of this problem include searching fo...
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...
Many enterprise applications prefer to store XML data as a rich data type, i.e. a sequence of bytes, in a relational database system to avoid the complexity of decomposing the dat...
Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Oliver Seeliger, Michae...