Today’s cross-organizations are increasingly coordinating their capabilities in the quest of dynamically adaptable and thus highly competitive realistic services. Unfortunately,...
The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and efficient distributed searching. Distributed searching is cast in three parts – datab...
Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Calla...
Abstract. Searching specialized collections, such as biomedical literature, typically requires intimate knowledge of a specialized terminology. Hence, it can be a disappointing exp...
In this paper we propose a new General Image DataBase (GIDB) model. The model establishes taxonomy based on the systematisation of existing approaches. The GIDB model is based on t...
When two or more databases are combined into a global one, integrity may be violated even when each database is consistent with its own local integrity constraints. Efficient metho...