Processing of top-k queries has been attracting considerable attention. Much of the work assumes distributed data, with each site holding a different set of attributes for the sam...
As Chinese is not alphabetic and the input of Chinese characters into computer is still a difficult and unsolved problem, voice retrieval of information becomes apparently an imp...
Data mining queries are often submitted concurrently to the data mining system. The data mining system should take advantage of overlapping of the mined datasets. In this paper we ...
Large XML documents which are stored in an XML database can be transformed further by an XSL processor using an XSLT stylesheet. In order to answer an XPath query based on the tran...
The OWL project is inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law of Technology Prediction: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It consists of a s...