Due to the ubiquity and popularity of XML, users often are in the following situation: they want to query XML documents which contain potentially interesting information but they ...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Martin L. Kersten, Menzo Wi...
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
Abstract. The basic aim of our study is to give a possible model for handling uncertain information. This model is worked out in the framework of DATALOG. At first the concept of f...
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously search for and synthesize user-oriented knowledge (target knowledge) in large local or distributed databases. A knowledge ge...
Background: An adequate and expressive ontological representation of biological organisms and their parts requires formal reasoning mechanisms for their relations of physical aggr...