Search engines are among the most important applications or services on the web. Most existing successful search engines use global ranking algorithms to generate the ranking of do...
We present a flexible query allocation framework, called Satisfaction-based Query Allocation (SbQA for short), for distributed information systems where both consumers and provider...
There has been a great deal of work in recent years on processing and optimizing queries against XML data. Typically in these previous works, schema information is not considered,...
Stelios Paparizos, Jignesh M. Patel, H. V. Jagadis...
To access data sources on the Web, a crucial step is wrapping, which translates query responses, rendered in textual HTML, back into their relational form. Traditionally, this pro...
Shui-Lung Chuang, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, ChengXia...
The MIX mediator systems incorporates a novel framework for navigation-driven evaluation of virtual mediated views. Its architecture allows the on-demand computation of views and q...