Two current trends in distributed computing are the emergence of standardised distributed object platforms such as CORBA, and the increasing use of continuous media data types. Th...
Focus+context visualization techniques aim to give users integrated visual access to both details and overview of a data set. This paper gives a systematic account of such visuali...
A semantic caching scheme suitable for wrappers wrapping web sources is presented. Since the web sources have typically weaker querying capabilities than conventional databases, e...
By integrating visual media with positioning information obtained with our wearable computer, we create new opportunities for using visuals both in the field and at the workstatio...
In this paper, we present a query system that has been implemented in a practical biological database - GPCRDB. Distinguishing features of this system include: smart query relaxat...