Many applications need to solve the following problem of approximate string matching: from a collection of strings, how to find those similar to a given string, or the strings in ...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. This structured data is increasingly exposed using information extraction systems, which generate structured relation...
XML database systems are expected to handle increasingly complex queries over increasingly large and highly structured XML databases. An important problem that needs to be solved ...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
There has been a great deal of interest in the past few years on ranking of results of queries on structured databases, including work on probabilistic information retrieval, rank...
Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, Nishant Kapoor, S. ...
Self-tuning is a cost-effective and elegant solution to the important problem of configuring a database to the characteristics of the query load. Existing techniques operate in an...
Karl Schnaitter, Serge Abiteboul, Tova Milo, Neokl...