The World Wide Webprovides new opportunities for collecting information from distributed, multiple, and heterogeneous data sources. Information brokering can bc used to provide co...
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christoph Schlieder, Ubbo V...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
: Whenever transformation of data is used to bridge the gap of different data formats, and a query is given in the destination format, query reformulation can speed up the transfor...
Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking scheme in order to effectively handle user searches, which are inherently ambiguous and whose relevance ...
XML transformations are very sensitive to types: XML types describe the tags and attributes of XML elements as well as the number, kind, and order of their sub-elements. Therefore,...