Existing approaches for optimizing queries in data integration use decoupled strategies–attempting to optimize coverage and cost in two separate phases. Since sources tend to ha...
A major challenge facing biodiversity informatics is integrating data stored in widely distributed databases. Initial efforts have relied on taxonomic names as the shared identifi...
Large volumes of content (bookmarks, reviews, videos, etc.) are currently being created on the "Social Web", i.e. on Web 2.0 community sites, and this content is being a...
Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin, Aidan Finn, Stefan ...
XML and its related technologies have now been in use for almost a decade. There has been considerable amount of effort both from research and industry focusing on XML, XQuery/XPa...
The frequency of accesses to remote data is a key factor affecting the performance of all Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems. Remote data caching is one of the most effective...