An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
Abstract—With the price of wireless sensor technologies diminishing rapidly we can expect large numbers of autonomous sensor networks being deployed in the near future. These sen...
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
The DynaQuest-Framework should reduce the effort for the creation of Internet-based virtual databases. These virtual databases are a special kind of federated database systems whe...
Background: Many proteomics initiatives require integration of all information with uniformcriteria from collection of samples and data display to publication of experimental resu...