Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...
—A major challenge faced by today’s information systems is that of evolution as data usage evolves or new data resources become available. Modern organizations sometimes exchan...
We present an annotation management system for relational databases. In this system, every piece of data in a relation is assumed to have zero or more annotations associated with ...
Deepavali Bhagwat, Laura Chiticariu, Wang Chiew Ta...
Building on abstract reference models, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has established standards for storing, discovering, and processing geographical information. These stan...
An ad hoc data format is any non-standard, semi-structured data format for which robust data processing tools are not available. In this paper, we present ANNE, a new kind of mark...