The Rufus System: Information Organization for Semi-Structured Data
Summary: Rufus is an extensible object-oriented framework for semi-structured data, offering automatic classification, search, and browse without forcing fixed-schema translation. Unique for its class hierarchy and encapsulated actions, with demos xrufus and trn, it demonstrates practical semi-structured data management and guides Rufus development. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. K. Shoens (IBM)
- 2. A. Luniewski (IBM)
- 3. P. Schwarz (IBM)
- 4. J. Stamos (IBM)
- 5. J. Thomas (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@article{shoens_vldb93,
title = {{The Rufus System: Information Organization for Semi-Structured Data}},
author = {Shoens, K. and Luniewski, A. and Schwarz, P. and Stamos, J. and Thomas, J.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '93},
year = {1993}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,989 | Incremental Updates of Inverted Lists for Text Document Retrieval | 1994 | SIGMOD | 9.3486136e-05 |
| 2,588 | Optimizing Queries on Files | 1994 | SIGMOD | 8.3742403e-05 |
| 3,588 | A Database Interface for File Update | 1995 | SIGMOD | 7.281669e-05 |
| 4,352 | OdeFS: A File System Interface to an Object-Oriented Database | 1994 | VLDB | 6.7491841e-05 |
| 5,635 | Algebras for Querying Text Regions (Extended Abstract) | 1995 | PODS | 6.1408026e-05 |
| 6,541 | A Dataspace Odyssey: The iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System | 2007 | CIDR | 5.8471331e-05 |
| 7,545 | An Open Abstract-Object Storage System | 1996 | SIGMOD | 5.602766e-05 |
| 9,139 | iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management | 2006 | VLDB | 5.3160527e-05 |
| 13,008 | Type Classification of Semi-Structured Documents | 1995 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,059 | On B-tree Indices for Skewed Distributions | 1992 | VLDB | 0.00012377809 |
| 2,963 | Aspects: Extending Objects to Support Multiple, Independent Roles | 1991 | SIGMOD | 7.9157744e-05 |
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