Abstract. We address the problem of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for multimedia applications (e.g., distance education, telemedicine, electronic commerce). These applicati...
Gary Molenkamp, Michael Katchabaw, Hanan Lutfiyya,...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Wikipedia is an example of the large, collaborative, semi-structured data sets emerging on the Web. Typically, before these data sets can be used, they must transformed into struc...
XML has become the standard platform for structured data exchange on the Web. Next concern of Semantic Web is the exchange of rules in markup language form. The rules should be re...
Several research areas today overlap between the tracks of databases, information retrieval and knowledge management, such as natural language processing, semantic web, digital li...