The integration of data produced and collected across autonomous, heterogeneous web services is an increasingly important and challenging problem. Due to the lack of global identi...
Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas...
Semantic integration is an active area of research in several disciplines, such as databases, information-integration, and ontologies. This paper provides a brief survey of the ap...
A key challenge for companies is to manage customer relationships as an asset. To create an effective toolkit for the analysis of customer relationships, a combination of relation...
Andreas Meier, Nicolas Werro, Martin Albrecht, Mil...
The MPEG-7 standard provides description mechanisms and taxonomy management for multimedia documents. There are several approaches to design a multimedia database system using MPE...
Abstract. The natural and surrogate key architectures are two competing approaches to specifying keys in relational databases. We analyze the performance of these approaches with r...
Slavica Aleksic, Milan Celikovic, Sebastian Link, ...