Emerging computational paradigms such as global and ubiquitous computing require some rethinking and innovative research ideas in many computer science areas. In this work, we aim...
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
The high quality, structured data from Web structured sources is invaluable for many applications. Hidden Web databases are not directly crawlable by Web search engines and are on...
The problem of estimating progress for long-running queries has recently been introduced. We analyze the characteristics of the progress estimation problem, from the perspective o...
As peer-to-peer (P2P) networks become more familiar to the database community, intense interest has built up in using their scalability and resilience properties to scale database...