This demonstration presents FlexPref, a framework implemented inside the DBMS query processor that enables efficient and extensible preference query processing. FlexPref provides ...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
— XML is commonly supported by SQL database systems. However, existing mappings of XML to tables can only deliver satisfactory query performance for limited use cases. In this pa...
Liang Jeff Chen, Philip A. Bernstein, Peter Carlin...
Abstract. Distributed knowledge management systems (DKMS) have been suggested to meet the requirements of today’s knowledge management. Peer-to-peer systems offer technical found...
Marc Ehrig, Christoph Schmitz, Steffen Staab, Juli...
Abstract With the rapid advances in mobile computing technology, there is an increasing demand for processing realtime transactions in a mobile environment. This paper studies con...
Kam-yiu Lam, Tei-Wei Kuo, Wai-Hung Tsang, Gary C. ...