In this paper, we study the problem of effective keyword search over XML documents. We begin by introducing the notion of Valuable Lowest Common Ancestor (VLCA) to accurately and ...
: Web Information Systems (WISs) embody a core technology for all larger enterprises. WISs are employed in an intranet or extranet for internal information interchange or communica...
We present a framework for automatically summarizing social group activity over time. The problem is important in understanding large scale online social networks, which have dive...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
The amount of data handled by real-time and embedded applications is increasing. Also, applications normally have constraints with respect to freshness and timeliness of the data ...