The World Wide Web has not only revolutionized the area of traditional hypermedia, it is also starting to influence adaptive hypermedia research. The main feature of the World Wid...
Peter Dolog, Rita Gavriloaie, Wolfgang Nejdl, Jan ...
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...
Despite various interoperability recommendations, heterogeneity of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is still an issue. This led to an increasing need for a data integration sy...
This paper presents a scalable and adaptive decentralized metadata lookup scheme for ultra large-scale file systems (≥ Petabytes or even Exabytes). Our scheme logically organiz...
Yu Hua, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Lei Tian
We present an architecture and a set of challenges for peer database management systems. These systems team up to build a network of nodes (peers) that coordinate at run time most...