Remote data access from disparate sources across a widearea network such as the Internet is problematic due to the unpredictable nature of the communications medium and the lack o...
Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka "null values") is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through media...
Background: The identification of local similarities between two protein structures can provide clues of a common function. Many different methods exist for searching for similar ...
The preservation of digital artifacts represents an unanswered challenge for the modern information society: XML and its query languages provide an effective environment to addre...
The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large numb...