— Most biomedical research databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data. However, temporal knowledge about the contextual meaning of such data is not usually repr...
The development of new services through the integration of existing ones has gained a considerable momentum as a means to create and streamline business-to-business collaborations...
Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H. H. Ngu,...
Since WWW encourages hypertext and hypermedia document authoring (e.g. HTML or XML), Web authors tend to create documents that are composed of multiple pages connected with hyperl...
As more and more query processing work can be done in main memory, memory access is becoming a significant cost component of database operations. Recent database research has show...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...