An effective query optimizer finds a query plan that exploits the characteristics of the source data. In data integration, little is known in advance about sources' propertie...
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
Today's enterprises face critical needs in integrating disparate information spread over several data sources inside and even outside the organization. Most organizations alre...
As approaches to conceptual modeling of XML data become more popular, a need arises to reverse-engineer existing schemas to the conceptual models. They make the management of XML s...
Ion-selective electrodes (ISE) offer a practical approach for estimating ionic activities. Nonetheless, such devices are not selective, i.e., the ISE response can be affected by ...
Leonardo Tomazeli Duarte, Christian Jutten, Sa&ium...