The integration of four design attributes (componentcost, quality, function, and technology) streamlines product design by providing a multilateral view to designers that leads to...
Rewriting queries using views is a powerful technique that has applications in query optimization, data integration, data warehousing etc. Query rewriting in relational databases ...
This paper was prepared for a lecture at a recent meeting of the German Chapter of ISKO devoted to Wissensorganisation mit Multimedialen Techniken [Knowledge Organization with Mul...
The tutorial first addresses requirements and semantic problems to integrate digital information into large scale, meaningful networks of knowledge that support not only access to...
The proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much wider access to data currently available in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In order t...