Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is widely used to represent, create, and display virtual reality objects and their environment. Some VRML applications require concurrent ...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Hierarchies provide a means of organizing, summarizing and accessing information. We describe a method for automatically generating hierarchies from small collections of text, and...
Abstract. The Web has been rapidly “deepened” with the prevalence of databases online. On this “deep Web,” numerous sources are structured, providing schema-rich data– Th...
Abstract. The Semantic Web promises to provide timely, targeted access to user-specified information online. Though standardized services exist for performing this work, specifying...