In information-integration systems, sources may have diverse and limited query capabilities. In this paper we show that because sources have restrictions on retrieving their infor...
Desktop search is an important part of personal information management (PIM). However, research in this area has been limited by the lack of shareable test collections, making cum...
Abstract: Peer data management systems (PDMS) are a highly dynamic, decentralized infrastructure for large-scale data integration. They consist of a dynamic set of autonomous peers...
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...