Many geographic terms, such as "river" and "lake", are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is oft...
Schema merging is the process of consolidating multiple schemas into a unified view. The task becomes particularly challenging when the schemas are highly heterogeneous and autono...
Xiang Li 0002, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sand...
XML is poised to take the World-Wide-Web to the next level of innovation. XML data, large or small, with or without associated schema, will be exchanged between increasing number ...
Freeblock scheduling is a new approach to utilizing more of disks' potential media bandwidths. By filling rotational latency periods with useful media transfers, 20{50% of a ...
Christopher R. Lumb, Jiri Schindler, Gregory R. Ga...
Abstract. One important advantage of logic programming is that it allows the implicit exploitation of parallelism. Towards this goal, we suggest that or-parallelism can be efficien...