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PODS
2008
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Towards a theory of schema-mapping optimization
A schema mapping is a high-level specification that describes the relationship between two database schemas. As schema mappings constitute the essential building blocks of data ex...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Alan Nash, Luci...
JASIS
2000
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14 years 9 months ago
Tropes, history, and ethics in professional discourse and information science
: This paper argues that professional discourses tend to align themselves with dominant ideological and social forces by means of language. In twentieth century modernity, the use ...
Ronald Day
CSDA
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Generalized theory of uncertainty (GTU) - principal concepts and ideas
Uncertainty is an attribute of information. The path-breaking work of Shannon has led to a universal acceptance of the thesis that information is statistical in nature. Concomitan...
Lotfi A. Zadeh
ECIS
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Curing health care information systems with open source software
: The purpose of this paper is to examine the current state of open source projects in health care environment and the level of collaboration in this field. We underpinned our disc...
Lauri Salmivalli, Jussi Nissilä
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
The economics in interactive information retrieval
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
Leif Azzopardi