With the grown popularity of the Internet and the increasing use of business and multimedia applications the users' demand for higher and more predictable quality of service ...
Needs of multimedia systems evolved due to the evolution of their architecture which is now distributed into heterogeneous contexts. A critical issue lies in the fact that they ha...
In this paper, we describe our experiences in building and evolving an XQuery engine with a focus on data and service federation use cases. The engine that we discuss is a core co...
Michael Blow, Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey,...
Data mining has proven a successful gateway for discovering useful knowledge and for enhancing business intelligence in a range of application fields. Incorporating this knowledg...
Andreas L. Symeonidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pe...
The mediator-wrapper approach to integrate data from heterogeneous data sources has usually been centralized in the sense that a single mediator system is placed between a number o...