In many applications, users specify target values for certain attributes, without requiring exact matches to these values in return. Instead, the result to such queries is typical...
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...
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Evangelos Zirintsis, Graham N. C. Kirby, Ronald Mo...
The development of Internet commercial applications and corporate Intranets around the world, which uses Java as the de facto standard language, is a significant topic in modern S...
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It is today widely acceptedthat "Business Rules Independence" is required for information systemsto better and more rapidly adjust to changesin thebusinessenvironment,Th...