—We outline SoftFacts, an ontology mediated top-k information retrieval system over relational databases. An ontology layer is used to define (in terms of a OWL-QL like Semantic...
Lookup of services is an important issues in many distributed systems. This paper deals with lookup in service-oriented architectures, such as Web services, P2P systems, GRIDs, or ...
: Due to the high complexity of objects and queries and also due to extremely large data volumes, geographic database systems impose stringent requirements on their storage and acc...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Holger Horn, Hans-Peter Kriegel,...
Object persistence architectures support transparent access to persistent objects. For efficiency, many of these architectures support queries that can prefetch associated objects ...
When a query is submitted to a metasearch engine, decisions are made with respect to the underlying search engines to be used, what modifications will be made to the query, and ho...
Eric J. Glover, Steve Lawrence, William P. Birming...