XML Views of Relational Databases: Semantics and Update Problems. XML is the standard for representing, publishing and exchanging data over the Internet and relational database is the dominant technology for data management. Updating XML views over relational data is fundamental to bring these two technologies together to serve Internet-based applications. Australia has been a leading country in both developing and applying internet technologies. The theoretic outcomes of this project will contr ....XML Views of Relational Databases: Semantics and Update Problems. XML is the standard for representing, publishing and exchanging data over the Internet and relational database is the dominant technology for data management. Updating XML views over relational data is fundamental to bring these two technologies together to serve Internet-based applications. Australia has been a leading country in both developing and applying internet technologies. The theoretic outcomes of this project will contribute to the advance in database and web research communities and establish us as an internationally leading group in this research area. The technological outcomes will help organisations in Australia effectively and efficiently conduct e-Business on the Internet. Read moreRead less
Using Past Queries for Fast and Accurate Web Searching. Searching the entire Internet, or a company web site, has become a vital task for modern organisations. While there has been significant research into improving search engines through using web pages themselves, very little attention has been paid to improving web search by exploiting the vast numbers of queries that users submit to search engines each day. This project will use state of the art compression and algorithmic techniques to imp ....Using Past Queries for Fast and Accurate Web Searching. Searching the entire Internet, or a company web site, has become a vital task for modern organisations. While there has been significant research into improving search engines through using web pages themselves, very little attention has been paid to improving web search by exploiting the vast numbers of queries that users submit to search engines each day. This project will use state of the art compression and algorithmic techniques to improve the speed and accuracy of web search using data gleaned from millions of Internet queries (provided under agreement by Microsoft). Improving search engines will have a direct benefit to many Australian industries, and support the government's priority area of "smart information use".Read moreRead less