The World Wide Web is a vast resource for information. At the same time it is extremely distributed. A particular type of data such as restaurant lists maybe scattered across thous...
An increasing number of language and speech applications are gearing towards the use of texts from online sources as input. Despite such rise, not much work can be found in the as...
When a database is defined as views over autonomous sources, inconsistencies with respect to global integrity constraints are to be expected. This paper investigates the possibili...
The World Wide Webprovides new opportunities for collecting information from distributed, multiple, and heterogeneous data sources. Information brokering can bc used to provide co...
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christoph Schlieder, Ubbo V...
Component Based Development aims at constructing software through the inter-relationship between pre-existing components. However, these components should be bound to a specific a...