: Currently, the World Wide Web is mostly composed of isolated and loosely connected "data islands". Connecting them together and retrieving only the information that is ...
For querying structured and semistructured data, data retrieval and document retrieval are two valuable and complementary techniques that have not yet been fully integrated. In thi...
Advances in the areas of embedded systems, computing, and networking are leading to an infrastructure composed of millions of heterogeneous devices. These devices will not simply ...
We have developed a distributed search engine, Cooperative Search Engine (CSE) to retrieve fresh information. In CSE, a local search engine located in each web server makes an ind...
Abstract: Peer data management systems (PDMS) are the natural extension of integrated information systems. Conventionally, a single integrating system manages an integrated schema,...
Ralf Heese, Sven Herschel, Felix Naumann, Armin Ro...