Abstract—XML indexing and search has become an important topic, and twig joins are key building blocks in XML search systems. This paper describes a novel approach using a nested...
Abstract—Design applications, e.g., CAD or media production, often require multiple users to work cooperatively on shared data, e.g., XML documents. Using explicit transactions i...
This article investigates the role of common-knowledge in the principal-agent model under asymmetric information. We treat the problem: How the common-knowledge condition will be a...
This paper proposes lexical annotation as an effective method to solve the ambiguity problems that affect ontology matchers. Lexical annotation associates to each ontology elemen...
There are two main topics in this paper: (i) Vietnamese words are recognized and sentences are segmented into words by using probabilistic models; (ii) the optimum probabilistic mo...
The wide availability of commodity multi-core systems presents an opportunity to address the latency issues that have plaqued XML query processing. However, simply executing multi...
Database engines and database-centric applications have become complex software systems. Ensuring bug-free database services is therefore a very difficult task. Whenever possible...
The creation of a generic and modular query optimization and processing infrastructure can provide significant benefits to XML data management. Key pieces of such an infrastructur...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...
User privacy in location-based services has attracted great interest in the research community. We introduce a novel framework based on a decentralized architecture for privacy pr...