Retrieving relevant information in Data and Knowledge Bases containing a large number of di erent types of information is a non trivial problem. That is the reason why, in areas l...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to manage data in multiple languages simultaneously. While current database systems do support the storag...
We examine the organizational impact on phylogenetic databases of the increasing sophistication in the need and use of phylogenetic data. A primary issue is the use of the unnorma...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
Application-level content-based routing using XML is a key technology for decentralized publish/subscribe systems. In this paper, a new approach is proposed to support the efficien...