The question whether a given set of views, defined by queries, can be used to answer another query, arises in several contexts such as query optimization, data integration and se...
Information extraction systems have been dealt with at length from the viewpoint of users posing definite questions whose expected answer is to be found in a document collection. T...
There is a significant need for data integration capabilities in the scientific domain, which has manifested itself as products in the commercial world as well as academia. Howeve...
Brenton Louie, Landon Detwiler, Nilesh N. Dalvi, R...
Wikis are established means for the collaborative authoring, versioning and publishing of textual articles. The Wikipedia project, for example, succeeded in creating the by far lar...
We present details of a goal-oriented process for database requirements analysis. This process consists of a number of steps, spanning the spectrum from high-level stakeholder goa...
Lei Jiang, Thodoros Topaloglou, Alexander Borgida,...