Digital libraries are a core information technology. When the stored data is complex, e.g. high-resolution images or molecular protein structures, simple query types like the exac...
Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often i...
Dataspace management has been recently identified as a new agenda for information management [17, 22] and information integration [23]. In sharp contrast to standard information ...
Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Sh...
— Accurate query performance prediction (QPP) is central to effective resource management, query optimization and query scheduling. Analytical cost models, used in current genera...
Integration systems typically support only a restricted set of queries over the schema they export. The reason is that the participating information sources contribute limited con...