Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
Computational resources for research in legal environments have historically implied remote access to large databases of legal documents such as case law, statutes, law reviews an...
Jack G. Conrad, Khalid Al-Kofahi, Ying Zhao, Georg...
Web Information Systems (WIS) support the process of retrieving information from sources on the Web and of presenting them as a hypermedia presentation. Most WIS design ogies focu...
Bas Rutten, Peter Barna, Flavius Frasincar, Geert-...
Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...
The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...