To integrate many data sources we use a peer mediator framework where views defined in the peers are logically composed in terms of each other. A common approach to execute queri...
Most search systems for querying large document collections---for example, web search engines---are based on well-understood information retrieval principles
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To support emerging database applications that deal with continuously changing (or moving) data objects (CCDOs), such as vehicles, RFIDs, and multi-stimuli sensors, one requires an...
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Current approaches for answering queries with imprecise constraints require user-specific distance metrics and importance measures for attributes of interest - metrics that are ha...