When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
: Within the EC funded research project GEMINI (Generic Environment for Multilingual Interactive Natural Interfaces) we aim at the development of a platform that assists the user t...
Stefan W. Hamerich, Volker Schless, Volker Schuber...
Data visualization is one of the big issues of database research. OLAP as a decision support technology is highly related to the developments of data visualization area. In this p...
Andreas S. Maniatis, Panos Vassiliadis, Spiros Ski...
Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users ...
The emergence of Web 2.0 has resulted in a huge amount of heterogeneous data that are contributed by a large number of users, engendering new challenges for data management and qu...