The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited knowle...
In order to deal with the diversified nature of XML documents as well as individual user preferences, we propose a novel Multiodel (MRM), which is able to abstract a spectrum of i...
The ability to deal with uncertain information is becoming increasingly important for modern database applications. Whereas a conventional (certain) object is usually represented ...
Increased availability of large repositories of chemical compounds has created new challenges and opportunities for the application of data-mining and indexing techniques to probl...
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...