We consider the problem of "progressively" joining relations whose records are continuously retrieved from remote sources through an unstable network that may incur temp...
Yufei Tao, Man Lung Yiu, Dimitris Papadias, Marios...
Abstract. We describe the construction of a generic natural language query interface to an XML database. Our interface can accept an arbitrary English sentence as a query, which ca...
Service descriptions allow designers to document, understand, and use services, creating new useful and complex services with aggregated business value. Unlike RPC-based services,...
Scientific digital libraries serve complex and evolving research communities. Justifications for the development of scientific digital libraries include the desire to preserve sci...
J. Steven Hughes, Daniel J. Crichton, Chris Mattma...
The paper presents a model of visual attention combined with eye tracking to drive content-based retrieval of image data in order to facilitate understanding and development of ne...
Mariofanna G. Milanova, Stuart Harvey Rubin, Roume...