A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
This paper studies the problem of evaluating continuous multi-way joins on top of Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). We present a novel algorithm, called recursive join (RJoin), that...
This work addresses a problem of optimal query processing in heterogeneous and distributed multidatabase systems. The objective is to nd a method for opimization of global query p...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature, and we can expose this structured data using information extraction technology. By processing a text database with inf...
Due to the lack of efficient native XML database management systems, XML data manipulation and query evaluation may be resource-consuming, and represent a bottleneck for several ...