Focusing on the context of XML retrieval, in this paper we propose a general methodology for managing structured queries (involving both content and structure) within any given st...
In applications like location-based services, sensor monitoring and biological databases, the values of the database items are inherently uncertain in nature. An important query fo...
Reynold Cheng, Jinchuan Chen, Mohamed F. Mokbel, C...
— In the context of adaptive query processing (AQP), several techniques have been proposed for dynamically adapting/redistributing processor load assignments throughout a computa...
Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
We deal with the problem of maintaining a dynamic graph so that queries of the form “is there an edge between u and v?” are processed fast. We consider graphs of bounded arbor...