Electronic product catalogs are considered as one of the main components of e-commerce applications. Efficient processing of queries on product catalogs is important for customer ...
1 This paper presents an investigation into the utility of document summarisation in the context of information retrieval, more specifically in the application of so called query b...
We propose the study of visibly pushdown automata (Vpa) for processing XML documents. Vpas are pushdown automata where the input determines the stack operation, and XML documents ...
This paper presents the advantages of combining multiple document representation schemes for query processing of XML queries on content and structure. We show how extending the Te...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...