Query length in best-match information retrieval (IR) systems is well known to be positively related to effectiveness in the IR task, when measured in experimental, non-interactiv...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Diane Kelly, G. Kim, Ja-Young ...
Caching has been proposed (and implemented) by OLAP systems in order to reduce response times for multidimensional queries. Previous work on such caching has considered table leve...
Prasad Deshpande, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Amit Shukl...
Users of database applications, especially in the e-commerce domain, often resort to exploratory "trial-and-error" queries since the underlying data space is huge and unf...
Abhijit Kadlag, Amol V. Wanjari, Juliana Freire, J...
er reports on a pragmatic query language for Racer. The abstract syntax and semantics of this query language is defined. Next, the practical relevance of this query language is sh...
Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is t...
Alex X. Liu, Mohamed G. Gouda, Huibo H. Ma, Anne H...