The social impact from the World Wide Web cannot be underestimated, but technologies used to build the Web are also revolutionizing the sharing of business and government informat...
Ronald Fagin, Ravi Kumar, Kevin S. McCurley, Jasmi...
Traditional spatial information systems hold only a single state of the ‘real world’. However, geographic phenomena have not only static but dynamic characteristics. The work d...
Several research areas today overlap between the tracks of databases, information retrieval and knowledge management, such as natural language processing, semantic web, digital li...
It is estimated that less than ten percent of the world’s species have been discovered and described. The main reason for the slow pace of new species description is that the sc...
In this paper we discuss a real world problem encountered during recent fieldwork: that of providing information in public settings when the information has both public and privat...