Information Retrieval (IR) is a major component in many of our daily activities, with perhaps its most prominent role manifested in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines...
The development of data warehouses is based on a threestage process that starts specifying both the static and dynamic properties of on-line analytical processing (OLAP) applicati...
The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...
XML databases often contain documents comprising structured text. Therefore, it is important to integrate "information retrieval style" query evaluation, which is well-s...
The nature of semistructured data in web collections is evolving. Increasingly, XML web documents (or documents exchanged via web services) are valid with regard to a schema, yet ...
Mariano P. Consens, Flavio Rizzolo, Alejandro A. V...