—The vision of the Semantic Web has brought about new challenges at the intersection of web research and data management. One fundamental research issue at this intersection is t...
Increasingly, distributed systems are being constructed by composing a number of discrete components. This practice, termed composition, is particularly prevalent within the Web s...
The emergence of Web 2.0 has resulted in a huge amount of heterogeneous data that are contributed by a large number of users, engendering new challenges for data management and qu...
This paper presents a new framework for users to select relevant data from an XML document and store it in an existing relational database, as opposed to previous approaches that s...
Popular image retrieval schemes generally rely only on a single mode, (either low level visual features or embedded text) for searching in multimedia databases. Many popular image...