ToC: The VLDB Journal, Volume 17, Issue 1 (January 2008)

The VLDB Journal - The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Volume 17 ,  Issue 1  (January 2008)
http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1325148

Introduction to the special issue on database and information retrieval
integration
W. Bruce Croft, Hans-J. Schek
Pages: 1 - 3

Modelling retrieval models in a probabilistic relational algebra with a new
operator: the relational Bayes
Thomas Roelleke, Hengzhi Wu, Jun Wang, Hany Azzam
Pages: 5 - 37

QQL: A DB&IR Query Language,
Ingo Schmitt
Pages: 39 - 56

A multi-ranker model for adaptive XML searching
Ho Lam Lau, Wilfred Ng
Pages: 57 - 80

TopX: efficient and versatile top-k query processing for semistructured
data
Martin Theobald, Holger Bast, Debapriyo Majumdar, Ralf Schenkel, Gerhard
Weikum
Pages: 81 - 115,

Precis: from unstructured keywords as queries to structured databases as
answers
Alkis Simitsis, Georgia Koutrika, Yannis Ioannidis
Pages: 117 - 149

Flexible and efficient IR using array databases
Roberto Cornacchia, S?ndor H?man, Marcin Zukowski, Arjen P. Vries, Peter
Boncz
Pages: 151 - 168