The number of documents published via WWW in form of SGML/HTML has been rapidly growing for years. Efficient, declarative access mechanisms for this type of documents
A common criticism of database systems is that they are hard to query for users uncomfortable with a formal query language. To address this problem, form-based interfaces and keyw...
Eric Chu, Akanksha Baid, Xiaoyong Chai, AnHai Doan...
Relational databases have had great industrial success in computer science. The power of the paradigm is made clear both by its widespread adoption and by theoretical analysis. Tod...
State-of-art image retrieval techniques have been developed to support high-level (semantics) querying and browsing of images. For certain user queries, it is also very important ...
We study complexity and approximation of queries in an expressive query language for probabilistic databases. The language studied supports the compositional use of confidence com...