SHIRI 1 is an ontology-based system for integration of semistructured documents related to a specific domain. The system’s purpose is to allow users to access to relevant parts ...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
What does a data stream mean? Much of the extensive work on query operators and query processing for data streams has proceeded without the benefit of an answer to this question. ...
David Maier, Jin Li, Peter A. Tucker, Kristin Tuft...
TASTIER is a research project on the new information-access paradigm called type-ahead search, in which systems find answers to a keyword query on-the-fly as users type in the quer...
Guoliang Li, Shengyue Ji, Chen Li, Jiannan Wang, J...
The goal of a mediator system is to provide users a uniform interface to the multitude of information sources. To translate user queries, given in a mediated schema, to queries on...