The rapid adoption of XML as the standard for data representation and exchange foreshadows a massive increase in the amounts of XML data collected, maintained, and queried over th...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
The THOMAS system is designed to make legislative information available to the general public over the Internet, and can be regarded as a prototypeof a government digitallibrary. ...
Nowadays, biologists use a number of large biological databanks to find relevant information for their research. Users of these databanks face a number of problems. One problem i...
In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
Computing support forlargeengineeringenterprisesprovides an example of the need for hypermedia-based collaborative computing systems composed of a large number of distributed hete...