This paper introduces the Ariadne Corpus Management System. First, the underlying data model is presented which enables users to represent and process heterogeneous data sets with...
: Information integration requires manipulating data and metadata in ways that in general go beyond a single existing transformation formalism. As a result, a complete source-to-ta...
Multimedia data has become readily available from a variety of resources, such as the Web, to users (ranging from naive to sophisticated) who need to select and to present the dat...
Time is one of the most difficult aspects to handle in real world applications such as database systems. Relational database management systems proposed by Codd offer very little ...
We present SECONDO, a new generic environment supporting the implementation of database systems for a wide range of data models and query languages. On the one hand, this framewor...