Aggregation in traditional database systems is performed in batch mode: a query is submitted, the system processes a large volume of data over a long period of time, and, eventual...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Peter J. Haas, Helen J. Wan...
Social tagging is an increasingly popular phenomenon with substantial impact on the way we perceive and understand the Web. For the many Web resources that are not self-descriptive...
A corporate portal supports a community of users on cohesively managing a shared set of resources. Such management should also include social tagging, i.e. the practice of collabor...
An emerging trend in Web computing aims at collecting and integrating distributed data. For instance, community driven efforts recently have build ontological repositories made of...
One of the most important emerging developments for improving the user/computer interface has been the addition of multimedia facilities to high-performance workstations. Although...