Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
Large multimedia repositories can be used more effectively by providing a hybrid environment for accomplishing common tasks, such as searching, browsing, presenting and indexing o...
Osama El Demerdash, Sabine Bergler, Leila Kosseim,...
Abstract. Semistructured data has no absolute schema xed in advance and its structure may be irregular or incomplete. Such data commonly arises in sources that do not impose a rigi...
Modern information systems often store data that has been transformed and integrated from a variety of sources. This integration may obscure the original source semantics of data ...