The explosion of the number of web-based information sources has drastically increased the need for intelligent mediation tools to be implemented between the users and these infor...
Background: Due to the complex and distributed nature of biological research, our current biological knowledge is spread over many redundant annotation databases maintained by man...
Brad T. Sherman, Da Wei Huang, Qina Tan, Yongjian ...
We propose an extension to current view-based mediator systems called model-based mediation, in which views are defined and executed at the level of conceptual models (CMs) rather...
Data warehouse and Online Analytical Processing(OLAP) play a key role in business intelligent systems. With the increasing amount of spatial data stored in business database, how ...
Fangyan Rao, Long Zhang, Xiulan Yu, Ying Li, Ying ...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...