Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
: One focus of current software development is the re-use of components in the construction of systems. Software Adaptation facilitates the consequent need to adapt these component...
I show how a conversational process that takes simple, intuitively meaningful steps may be understood as a sophisticated computation that derives the richly detailed, complex repr...
Z39.50 is a client/server protocol widely used in digital libraries and museums for searching and retrieving information spread over a number of heterogeneous sources. To overcome ...
In a semi-structured database there is no clear separation between the data and the schema, and the degree to which it is structured depends on the application. Semi-structured da...