—The access of information systems to underlying relational databases is commonly programmed using embedded SQL queries. Such embedded queries may take the form of string literal...
Huib van den Brink, Rob van der Leek, Joost Visser
We discuss query evaluation for XML-based server systems where the same query is evaluated on every incoming XML message. In a typical scenario, many of the incoming messages will...
We consider the network structure and query processing capabilities of social communities like bookmarks and photo sharing communities such as del.icio.us or flickr. A common fea...
We introduce the formal framework of a generalized interaction scheme for information access between users and information sources. Within this framework we describe an interactio...
: In the processing of Chinese documents and queries in information retrieval (IR), one has to identify the units that are used as indexes. Words and n-grams have been used as inde...