The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
XPath is the standard declarative language for navigating XML data and returning a set of matching nodes. In the context of XSLT/XQuery analysis, query optimization, and XML type ...
In this paper we present HOPI, a new connection index for XML documents based on the concept of the 2?hop cover of a directed graph introduced by Cohen et al. In contrast to most o...
Historical information can be effectively preserved using XML and searched through powerful historical queries written in XQuery. Indeed, by storing the successive versions of a d...
Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Xin Zhou, Hyun J. Moo...
In this paper, we propose a preference framework for information retrieval in which the user and the system administrator are enabled to express preference annotations on search ke...