The ability to store and query uncertain information is of great benefit to databases that infer values from a set of observations, including databases of moving objects, sensor r...
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has been validated to be effective on many small scale text collections. However, little evidence has shown its effectiveness on unsampled large sca...
Schema matching is a crucial task to gather information of the same domain. This is more true on the web, where a large number of data sources are available and require to be matc...
Modern database applications like geographic information systems, multimedia databases, and digital libraries dealing with huge volumes of high dimensional data, make use of multi...
The number of vertical search engines and portals has rapidly increased over the last years, making the importance of a topic-driven (focused) crawler evident. In this paper, we de...