Abstract. When querying XML collections, users cannot always express their need in a precise way. Systems should therefore support vagueness at both the content and structural leve...
Karen Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrismen...
Today, two classes of indexing methods enjoying wide applicability are the Inverted Index and the Superimposed Coding based Signature File (SC-SF). The former is most efficient i...
Dimitrios Dervos, P. Linardis, Yannis Manolopoulos
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
Managing multiple versions of XML documents represents a critical requirement for many applications. Also, there has been much recent interest in supporting complex queries on XML ...
Shu-Yao Chien, Vassilis J. Tsotras, Carlo Zaniolo,...
Abstract. Often the information present in a spatial knowledge base is represented at a different level of granularity and abstraction than the query constraints. For querying onto...
Prateek Jain, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory A. H...