Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
We propose an extension to current view-based mediator systems called model-based mediation, in which views are defined and executed at the level of conceptual models (CMs) rather...
We conduct the first systematical adoption of the Semantic Web solution in the integration, management, and utilization of TCM information and knowledge resources. As the results,...
— 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...
When joining information provider peers to a peer-to-peer network, an arbitrary distribution is sub-optimal. In fact, clustering peers by their characteristics, enhances search and...