Structured data and complex schemas are becoming the main way to represent the information many Digital Libraries provide, thus impacting the services they offer. When searching i...
Integrating Deep Web sources requires highly accurate semantic matches between the attributes of the source query interfaces. These matches are usually established by comparing th...
Abstract-- We investigate techniques to automatically decompose any XQuery query into subqueries, that can be executed near their data sources; i.e., function-shipping. In this sce...
We consider the well known geometric problem of determining shortest paths between pairs of points on a polyhedral surface P, where P consists of triangular faces with positive we...
Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...