The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to achieve this integration is by building sp...
Rational drug design is an example where integrated access to heterogeneous scientific data is urgently needed, as it becomes rapidly available due to new experimental and computa...
The result size of a query that involves multiple attributes from the same relation depends on these attributes’ joint data distribution,i.e., the frequencies of all combination...
The analysis of time series is a central issue in economic research and many other scientific applications. However, the data management functionality for this field is not provid...
Werner Dreyer, Angelika Kotz Dittrich, Duri Schmid...
Full-text information retrieval systems have traditionally been designed for archival environments. They often provide little or no support for adding new documents to an existing...