Distributed database design is a complex process that involves a set of distinct aspects for the accomplishment of an adequate data distribution (Buretta 1997). Many of these aspec...
Retrieving documents by subject matter is the general goal of information retrieval and other content access systems. There are other aspects of textual content, however, which fo...
Abstract. We investigate the potential of coherence-based scores to predict query difficulty. The coherence of a document set associated with each query word is used to capture the...
A wide range of database applications manage information that varies over time. Many of the underlying database schemas of these were designed using one of the several versions of...
: A pattern identifies a problem and provides the specification of a generic solution to that problem. Conceptual modelling patterns are aimed at representing a specific structure ...