The current Information Retrieval Systems return hundreds or thousands of documents in response to a query. Users consider only the first 20 or 30, but documents are often sorted a...
David Bueno, Ricardo Conejo, Amos David, Cristina ...
In several working environments, production involves repeated executions of certain procedures. A workflow describes the individual tasks performed in these procedures and their i...
Anastassia Ailamaki, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Miron Li...
Advanced technical applications like routing systems or electrical network managementsystems introduce the need for complex manipulations of large size graphs. Efficiently support...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Future database application systems will be designed as Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) like SAP’s NetWeaver instead of monolithic software systems such as SAP’s R/3. Th...
Stefan Seltzsam, Daniel Gmach, Stefan Krompass, Al...