To improve the process of user information retrieval, we propose the concept of a latent semantic map (LSM), along with a method of generating this map. The novel aspect of the LS...
Data integration is a significant challenge: relevant data objects are split across multiple information sources, and often owned by different organizations. The sources represent...
A mediator is a domain-speci c tool to support uniform access to multiple heterogeneous information sources and to abstract and combine data from different but related databases t...
Jacques Calmet, Sebastian Jekutsch, Joachim Sch&uu...
The World Wide Web promises to transform human society by making virtually all types of information instantly available everywhere. Two prerequisites for this promise to be realiz...
Donald D. Chamberlin, Jonathan Robie, Daniela Flor...
Querying and searching the Web is an important research field which has drawn a number of concepts from databases and information retrieval fields, but has added its own models, ...