Legacy network file services such as NFS, SMB/CIFS, and AFP changed the way we worked. File services running on crossplatform networks allowed us to save our files on remote syste...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems offer an efficient means of data sharing among a dynamically changing set of a large number of autonomous nodes. Each node in a p2p system is connected...
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...