MIWeb realizes a mediator-based integration of heterogeneous metadata sources over the Web. Mediators are well known from database integration. They improve the quality of search ...
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...
We investigate classes of SQL queries which are syntactically correct, but certainly not intended, no matter for which task the query was written. For instance, queries that are c...
Data with temporal information is constantly generated, sampled, gathered, and analyzed in different domains, such as medicine, finance, engineering, environmental sciences, and e...
A flexible method to store XML documents in relational or object-relational databases is presented that is based on an adaptable fragmentation. Whereas most known approaches decom...