When integrating data from autonomous sources, exact matches of data items that represent the same real world object often fail due to a lack of common keys. Yet in many cases str...
Many geographical applications deal with spatial objects that cannot be adequately described by determinate, crisp concepts because of their intrinsically indeterminate and vague n...
Cooperation in information retrieval contexts can be used to share query results inside groups of individuals with common objectives, provided that all of them are aware of each ot...
Image retrieval based on content from digital libraries, multimedia databases, the Internet, and other sources has been an important problem addressed by several researchers. In t...
How to extract data from XML documents is an important issue for XML research and development. However, how to view XML documents determines how they can be queried. In this paper...