In Toronto's Kanata project, we are investigating the integration and exchange of data and metadata in dynamic, autonomous environments. Our focus is on the development and m...
Currently, most of the discovered biological and biomedical knowledge is available as textual data in scientific papers. And, locating and curating information about a genomic enti...
2. ODB-QOPTIMIZER : the tool ODB-QOPTIMIZERis a ODMG 93 compliant tool for the schema validation and semantic query optimization. The approach is based on two fundamental ingredien...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...
The diversity of spatial information systems promotes the need to integrate heterogeneous spatial or geographic information systems (GIS) in a cooperative environment. This paper ...