Abstract. The Internet has instigated a critical need for automated tools that facilitate integrating countless databases. Since non-technical end users are often the ultimate repo...
Physical data independence is touted as a central feature of modern database systems. Both relational and object-oriented systems, however, force users to frame their queries in t...
Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Marvin H. Solomon, Yannis E....
Fuzzy semantic model (FSM) is a data model that uses basic concepts of semantic modeling and supports handling fuzziness, uncertainty and imprecision of real-world at the attribut...
Rafik Bouaziz, Salem Chakhar, Vincent Mousseau, Su...
Data intensive applications in Life Sciences extensively use the Hidden Web as a platform for information sharing. Access to these heterogeneous Hidden Web resources is limited thr...
Anupam Bhattacharjee, Aminul Islam, Mohammad Shafk...
Existing query interfaces for biological databases are either based on fixed forms or textual query languages. Users of a fixed form-based query interface are limited to performin...
I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz,...