This paper proposes techniques to query encrypted XML documents. Such a problem predominantly occurs in “Database as a Service” (DAS) architectures, where a client may outsour...
Current streaming applications have stringent requirements on query response time and memory consumption because of the large (possibly unbounded) size of data they handle. Further...
The use of lexical semantic knowledge in information retrieval has been a field of active study for a long time. Collaborative knowledge bases like Wikipedia and Wiktionary, which...
We are experiencing an unprecedented increase of content contributed by users in forums such as blogs, social networking sites and microblogging services. Such abundance of conten...
In this paper, a new indexing technique to support the query evaluation in document databases is proposed. The key idea of the method is the combination of the technique of pat-tre...