The development of large software systems is a typical example for collaborative development efforts. Moreover, software development becomes more and more componentoriented. The s...
Typically, searching for information in a document collection amounts to refining a query and then scanning a large number of documents to determine their relevance. Active Summar...
XML query processing is one of the most active areas of database research. Although the main focus of past research has been the processing of structural XML queries, there are gro...
—We propose a novel scenario called “writer retrieval” consisting in the retrieval from a set of documents all those produced by the same writer. The retrieval is based on a ...
Data cubes for OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) often need to be constructed from data located in several distributed and autonomous information sources. Such a data integratio...