Abstract. Distributed crawling has shown that it can overcome important limitations of the centralized crawling paradigm. However, the distributed nature of current distributed cra...
The concept of a transaction, highly significant in the context of data bases, is broadened to make it refer to any atomic operation that changes the state of a software system or...
In my thesis I will address the problem of interoperation between information spaces on the web. We explain how this problem is different to traditional database integration scenar...
The Nested List Normal Form is proposed as a syntactic normal form for semantically well-designed database schemata obtained from any arbitrary finite nesting of records and lists....
This paper summarizes the organizational and technical issues involved in creating a digital library of Native American images. Initial participants include a museum, an archives, ...