The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
The quality control and update of geo-data, in this case especially of road-data, is the primary aim of the system, which is presented in the paper. One important task of the syste...
In this paper, we describe MySearchView ? a system for assembling search engines into metasearch engines. With this system, any user can create a metasearch engine by simply letti...
Many web queries seek information about named entities (such as products or people). Web search engines federate such entity-oriented queries to relevant structured databases; the...
More and more important data is accumulated inside social networks. Limiting the flow of private information across a social network is very important, and most social networks pr...