The goal of this paper is to bring together the worlds of design and active databases. Design databases have to provide a powerful data model for complex structured design data as ...
A distributed XML document is an XML document that spans several machines or Web repositories. We assume that a distribution design of the document tree is given, providing an XML...
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously synthesize knowledge of interest to a given user (target knowledge) by applying inductive database operators to a local or di...
Benchmarking technical solutions is as important as the solutions themselves. Yet many fields still lack any type of rigorous evaluation. Performance benchmarking has always been ...
This demonstration showcases the STEP system for natural language access to relational databases. In STEP an administrator authors a highly structured semantic grammar through cou...