We consider the use of a database cluster for Application Service Provider (ASP). In the ASP context, applications and databases can be update-intensive and must remain autonomous....
Systems for managing and querying semistructured-data sources often store data in proprietary object repositories or in a tagged-text format. We describe a technique that can use ...
Abstract Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the onto...
Great e orts have been paid in the Intelligent Database Systems Research Lab for the research and development of e cient data mining methods and construction of on-line analytical...
A Query by Humming system allows the user to find a song by humming part of the tune. No musical training is needed. Previous query by humming systems have not provided satisfacto...