One of the major challenges facing information systems today is that of finding relevant information to satisfy a user's request and presenting it in a preferred form. The po...
A major challenge facing biodiversity informatics is integrating data stored in widely distributed databases. Initial efforts have relied on taxonomic names as the shared identifi...
: As soon as major protocol flaws were discovered empirically -- a good luck that is not older than the early 1990s -- this title question came up to the world. It was soon realise...
Abstract. Recent research showed the benefits of adopting formal ontologies as a means for accessing heterogeneous data sources. The use of an ontology not only provides a uniform...
Many search engines and other web applications suggest auto-completions as the user types in a query. The suggestions are generated from hidden underlying databases, such as query...