There is an increasing need for an XML query engine that not only searches for exact matches to a query but also returns “query-like” structures. We have designed and develope...
Abstract. To provide complex query processing in peer-to-peer systems has attracted much attention in both academic and industrial community. We present GChord, a scalable techniqu...
Repositories of multimedia objects having multiple types of attributes e.g., image, text are becoming increasingly common. A selection on these attributes will typically produce n...
Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
— In this paper, we aim to realize a context and preference-aware database system, CareDB, that provides scalable personalized location-based services to users based on their pre...