Preference queries have received considerable attention in the recent past, due to their use in selecting the most preferred objects, especially when the selection criteria are con...
Maria Kontaki, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yannis M...
UML is the de-facto standard language for Object-Oriented analysis and design of information systems. Persistent storage and extraction of data in such systems is supported by dat...
Data Grids provide transparent access to heterogeneous and autonomous data resources. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of a data sharing system that (i) is ...
This paper focuses on the problem of improving distributed query throughput of the RDBMS-based data integration system that has to inherit the query execution model of the underly...
Abstract. In today’s global environment, the structure and presentation of information may depend on the underlying context of the user. To address this issue, in previous work w...