Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
The combined benefits of smart card to support mobility in a pocket coupled with the ubiquitous access of Web technology, present a new paradigm for medical information access sys...
Abstract. Many projects have investigated the issue of storing XML in traditional database systems and exporting data in traditional databases as XML documents. However, they paid ...
The efficient management of interval data represents a core requirement for many temporal and spatial database applications. With the Relational Interval Tree (RI-tree1 ), an effi...
Abstract. Recently, the database and AI research communities have paid increased attention to ontologies. The main motivating reason is that ontologies promise solutions for comple...