Traditional information search in which queries are posed against a known and rigid schema over a structured database is shifting towards a Web scenario in which exposed schemas ar...
Abstract. This paper presents an innovative approach for the publication and discovery of Web services. The proposal is based on two previous works: DIRE (DIstributed REgistry), fo...
Today, there are several approaches supporting an integrated processing of XML and (object-)relational data sources. However, each of these approaches favors a single data model f...
Environmental databases store a wide variety of data from heterogeneous sources which are described with domain-specific terminologies and refer to distinct locations. In order to ...
Keyword-based search engines, though hugely popular, are limited when trying to answer very specific queries. The processing of search results is performed by users, rather than th...
Ian Blacoe, Ignazio Palmisano, Valentina A. M. Tam...