We observe two deficiencies of current query processing and scheduling techniques for sensor networks: (1) A query execution plan does not adapt to the hardware characteristics o...
Results caching is an efficient technique for reducing the query processing load, hence it is commonly used in real search engines. This technique, however, bounds the maximum hit...
The Web has evolved from a global information space of linked documents to a web of linked data. The Web of Data enables answering complex, structured queries that could not be an...
Most database systems allow query processing over attributes that are derived at query runtime (e.g., user-defined functions and remote data calls to web services), making them e...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
Marking up queries with annotations such as part-of-speech tags, capitalization, and segmentation, is an important part of many approaches to query processing and understanding. D...
In this paper we propose a novel document retrieval model in which text queries are augmented with multi-dimensional taxonomy restrictions. These restrictions may be relaxed at a ...
Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski, Ravi Kumar, Chr...
Traditional indexes aim at optimizing the node accesses during query processing, which, however, does not necessarily minimize the total cost due to the possibly large number of r...
With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. Access to multimedia objects in database...
Arjen P. de Vries, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter M. G. A...
Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...
Location-based spatial queries (LBSQs) refer to spatial queries whose answers rely on the location of the inquirer. Efficient processing of LBSQs is of critical importance with the...