Extracting data from Web pages using wrappers is a fundamental problem arising in a large variety of applications of vast practical interest. In this paper, we propose a novel sch...
The discovery of services that are appropriate for answering a given question is a crucial task in the open and distributed environment of web services for geographic information. ...
This work describes a generic database service for the lightweight Venice Service Grid, which has been developed at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. By using Web service...
As an alternative to previous studies on extracting class attributes from unstructured text, which consider either Web documents or query logs as the source of textual data, A boo...
The increasing importance of Unicode for text encoding implies a possible doubling of data storage space and data transmission time, with a corresponding need for data compression...