An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
The advantage of ID-based system is the simplification of key distribution and certification management; a user can directly use his identity as his public key instead of an arbi...
Yan Xie, Fangguo Zhang, Xiaofeng Chen, Kwangjo Kim
It is not always clear how best to represent integrated data sets, and which application and database features allow a scientist to take best advantage of data coming from various ...
Joanna Jakubowska, Ela Hunt, John McClure, Matthew...
Today many workers spend too much of their time translating their co-workers' requests into structures that information systems can understand. This paper presents the novel ...
John Zimmerman, Anthony Tomasic, Isaac Simmons, Ia...
This paper describes a framework to support the implementation of web-based systems to manipulate data stored in relational databases. Since the conceptual model of a relational da...