A myriad of resources can be found on the Web today, and finding (topically) relevant resources for a given information need is a daunting task. Even if relevant resources can be...
Bas van Gils, Henderik Alex Proper, Patrick van Bo...
Abstract. This article merges two approaches: one dealing with persistence for logic programs, as provided by a relational database back-end and another which addresses the issues ...
Location-based services (LBS) constitute an emerging application domain involving spatio-temporal databases. In this paper, i) we propose a classification of LBS, depending on whet...
Kostas Gratsias, Elias Frentzos, Vasilis Delis, Ya...
Data integration is one of the older research fields in the database area and has emerged shortly after database systems were first introduced into the business world. In this pa...
Caching issues in meta-search engines are considered. We propose a popularity-driven cache algorithm that utilizes both popularities and reference counters of queries to determine ...