An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
In adaptive query processing, the way in which a query is evaluated is changed in the light of feedback obtained from the environment during query evaluation. Such feedback may, f...
Kwanchai Eurviriyanukul, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A...
In this contribution a system is presented, which provides access to distributed data sources using Semantic Web technology. While it was primarily designed for data sharing and sc...
Geographic information systems (GIS) must support large georeferenced data sets. Due to the size of these data sets finding exact answers to spatial queries can be very time consum...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Scott T. Leutenegger
: Over the recent years, very little effort has been made to give XPath a proper algebraic treatment. The only laudable exception is the Natix Algebra (NAL) which defines the tran...