A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Coordination and collaboration are naturally used by groups for carrying out activities and solving problems that require cooperation. However, getting a set of computer agents to...
Mikael Berndtsson, Sharma Chakravarthy, Brian Ling...
This paper critically analyse the use of active databases as an enabling technology for result sharing as deļ¬ned in the DAI literature. In particular, we demostrate how ECA (Even...
Mikael Berndtsson, Sharma Chakravarthy, Brian Ling...
The full integration of information retrieval (IR) features into a database management system (DBMS) has long been recognized as both a significant goal and a challenging undertak...
Samuel DeFazio, Amjad M. Daoud, Lisa Ann Smith, Ja...
We describe a system for rapidly determining document similarity among a set of documents obtained from an information retrieval (IR) system. We obtain a ranked list of the most i...