Empowering users to access databases using simple keywords can relieve the users from the steep learning curve of mastering a structured query language and understanding complex a...
In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
Due to the growing popularity of XML as a data exchange and storage format, the need to develop efficient techniques for storing and querying XML documents has emerged. A common ap...
XML data is often modeled as node-labeled trees. In a structure-generic relational storage scheme, the structure of the XML data is shredded into pieces of a generic type, such as...
Top-k processing in uncertain databases is semantically and computationally different from traditional top-k processing. The interplay between score and uncertainty makes traditio...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Kevin Chen-Chua...