To be a full-featured data exchange format, XML should support not only queries but also updates on its contents. The new W3C XML update facility has proposed a set of operators (...
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
Searching and extracting meaningful information out of highly heterogeneous datasets is a hot topic that received a lot of attention. However, the existing solutions are based on e...
Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often i...
Modern computer systems are based on the traditional hierarchical file system model, but typically contain large numbers of files with complex interrelationships. This tradition...