Interest in XML databases has been growing over the last few years. In this paper, we study the problem of incorporating probabilistic information into XML databases. We propose th...
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
Rooted in electronic publishing, XML is now widely used for modelling and storing structured text documents. Especially in the WWW, retrieval of XML documents is most useful in co...
Felix Weigel, Holger Meuss, Klaus U. Schulz, Fran&...
The number of potentially-related data resources available for querying -- databases, data warehouses, virtual integrated schemas -continues to grow rapidly. Perhaps no area has s...
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob, Muhammad Salm...
Markov models have been widely used for modelling users' navigational behaviour in the Web graph, using the transitional probabilities between web pages, as recorded in the w...