An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
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...
Search engines are commercial entities that require revenue to survive. The most prevalent revenue stream for search engines is sponsored search, where content providers have sear...
Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...
Abstract. Motivated by research on how topology may be a helpful foundation for building information modeling (BIM), a relational database version of the notions of chain complex a...