Abstract. Database systems are islands of structure in a sea of unstructured data sources. Several real-world applications now need to create bridges for smooth integration of semi...
Abstract. Relevance feedback (RF) has been an effective query modification approach to improving the performance of information retrieval (IR) by interactively asking a user whet...
ion from the implementation they use. Some tools rather consequently use this abstract model; others at least partly keep the implementational view, modeling components, e.g., by o...
Gene Ontology (GO) is a controlled vocabulary. Given a gene product, GO enables scientists to clearly and unambiguously describe specific molecular functions of the gene product, ...
Abstract. Nowadays one of the most common formats for storing information is XML. The size of XML documents can be rather large, and they may contain redundant attributes which can...