An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Efficient management of RDF data is an important factor in realizing the Semantic Web vision. The existing approaches store RDF data based on triples instead of a relation model. I...
Most prior work on information extraction has focused on extracting information from text in digital documents. However, often, the most important information being reported in an...
Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL require a sorted stream of tuples for efficient processing. Therefore, processing complex relational queries relies on efficient a...
Enterprises may have multiple database systems spread across the organization for redundancy or for serving different applications. In such systems, query workloads can be distrib...