—This paper presents IQP - a novel approach to bridge the gap between usability of keyword search and expressiveness of database queries. IQP enables a user to start with an arbi...
We analyse the statistical behavior of query-associated quantities in query-logs, namely, the sum and mean of IDF of query terms, otherwise known as query specificity and query mea...
We have in a previous paper introduced the new query operators that are needed in order to support an XML query language that supports temporal operations. The query operators mak...
In this paper, we propose DBSampler, a query execution mechanism to answer "partial selection" queries in peerto-peer databases. A partial selection query is an arbitrar...
Various techniques have been developed for different query types in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems such as sampling queries, constrained sampling queries, multiple c...