Background: Information resources on the World Wide Web play an indispensable role in modern biology. But integrating data from multiple sources is often encumbered by the need to...
J. Christopher Bare, Paul T. Shannon, Amy K. Schmi...
— The database research community has recently recognized the usefulness of skyline query. As an extension of existing database operator, the skyline query is valuable for multi-...
Dalie Sun, Sai Wu, Jianzhong Li, Anthony K. H. Tun...
The World Wide Web, initially intended as a way to publish static hypertexts on the Internet, is moving toward complex applications. Static Web sites are being gradually replaced ...
Abstract-- Many popular Web sites suffer occasional uservisible problems such as slow responses, blank pages or error messages being displayed, items not being added to shopping ca...
Significant efforts are currently invested in application integration to enable the interaction and composition of business processes of different companies, yielding complex, mul...
Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, R...