Social media are constructed from the collective contributions of potentially millions of individuals and present an increasingly common and large scale form of database. As these...
Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Abstract. Software maintainers routinely have to deal with a multitude of artifacts, like source code or documents, which often end up disconnected, due to their different represen...
Wrapping databases allows them to be reused in formerly unplanned contexts, such as web-based applications or federated systems. Indeed, a wrapper can provide external clients of ...
Philippe Thiran, Jean-Luc Hainaut, Geert-Jan Hoube...