Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. This research develops an economic model for comparing search...
Transaction time databases retain and provide access to prior states of a database. An update “inserts” a new record while preserving the old version. Immortal DB builds trans...
David B. Lomet, Roger S. Barga, Mohamed F. Mokbel,...
One of the fundamental decisions in content networks is how the information about the existing contents is deployed and accessed. In particular, in many content network architectu...
The popularity of XML has motivated the development of novel XML processing tools many of which embed the XPath language for XML querying, transformation, constraint specificatio...
John W. S. Liu, Mariano P. Consens, Flavio Rizzolo
Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...