Any automated decision support software must tailor its actions or recommendations to the preferences of different users. Thus it requires some representation of user preferences ...
This paper focuses on the information management systems of the dynamic World Wide Web. Many individual web pages, such as news portals, provide periodic information and public an...
A power describes the ability of an agent to act in some way. While this notion of power is critical in the context of organisational dynamics, and has been studied by others in t...
Until recently, most data integration techniques involved central components, e.g., global schemas, to enable transparent access to heterogeneous databases. Today, however, with t...
Data integration over multiple heterogeneous data sources has become increasingly important for modern applications. The integrated data is usually stored in materialized views fo...
Songting Chen, Jun Chen, Xin Zhang, Elke A. Runden...