On Modelling Cooperative Retrieval Using an Ontology-Based Query Refinement Process
In this paper we present an approach for the interactive refinement of ontology-based queries. The approach is based on...
Data Integration with Preferences Among Sources
Data integration systems represent today a key technological infrastructure for managing the enormous amount of information even more and...
Load-Balancing Remote Spatial Join Queries in a Spatial GRID
The explosive growth of spatial data worldwide coupled with the emergence of GRID computing provides a strong motivation for...
Resolving Schematic Discrepancy in the Integration of Entity-Relationship Schemas
In schema integration, chematic discrepancies occur when data in one database correspond to metadata in another. We define this...
Expressing and Optimizing Similarity-Based Queries in SQL
Searching for similar objects (in terms of near and nearest neighbors) of a given query object from a large...
Managing Merged Data by Vague Functional Dependencies
In this paper, we propose a new similarity measure between vague sets and apply vague logic in a relational...
XSLTGen: A System for Automatically Generating XML Transformations via Semantic Mappings
XML is rapidly emerging as a dominant standard for representing and exchanging information. The ability to transform and present...
Merging of XML Documents
How to deal with the heterogeneous structures of XML documents, identify XML data instances, solve conflicts, and effectively merge...
Schema-Based Web Wrapping
An effective solution to automate information integration is represented by wrappers, i.e. programs which are designed for extracting relevant...
Web Taxonomy Integration Using Spectral Graph Transducer
We address the problem of integrating objects from a source taxonomy into a master taxonomy. This problem is not...
