In this paper, we present an extension of the scheme HH(C) (Hereditary Harrop formulas with Constraints) with a suitable formulation of negation in order to obtain a constraint ded...
Non-verbal modalities such as gesture can improve processing of spontaneous spoken language. For example, similar hand gestures tend to predict semantic similarity, so features th...
Data quality is a serious concern in every data management application, and a variety of quality measures have been proposed, including accuracy, freshness and completeness, to ca...
Bing Tian Dai, Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Divesh ...
Processing a twig pattern query in XML document includes structural search and content search. Most existing algorithms only focus on structural search. They treat content nodes th...
The problems of query containment, equivalence, and minimization are recognized as very important in the context of query processing, specifically of query optimization. In their...