Today, there is a huge amount of data gathered about the Earth, not only from new spatial information systems, but also from new and more sophisticated data collection technologie...
Frederico T. Fonseca, Max J. Egenhofer, Peggy Agou...
Applications have an increasing need to manage semistructured data such as data encoded in XML along with conventional structured data. We extend the structured object database ...
Tirthankar Lahiri, Serge Abiteboul, Jennifer Widom
RFID technology can be used to significantly improve the efficiency of business processes by providing the capability of automatic identification and data capture. This technol...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
Many users and applications require the integration of semi-structured data from autonomous, heterogeneous Web sources. Over the last years mediator systems have emerged that use d...