As data management applications grow more complex, they may need efficient distributed query processing, but also subscription management, data archival etc. To enact such applicat...
The THOMAS system is designed to make legislative information available to the general public over the Internet, and can be regarded as a prototypeof a government digitallibrary. ...
Multidimensional data structures are applied in many areas, e.g. in data mining, indexing multimedia data and text documents, and so on. There are some applications where the range...
Recent work in data integration has shown the importance of statistical information about the coverage and overlap of data sources for efficient query processing. Gathering and s...
The combination of evidence can increase retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of a decision mechanism for the selective combination of evidence...