The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
: Nowadays, a central topic in database science is the need of an integrated access to large amounts of data provided by various information sources whose contents are strictly rel...
The Internet is full of information sources providing various types of data from weather forecasts to travel deals. These sources can be accessed via web-forms, Web Services or RS...
Acquiring knowledge from the Web to build domain ontologies has become a common practice in the Ontological Engineering field. The vast amount of freely available information allo...
Abstract. Automated modeling of appropriate and valid document descriptions is a central issue for the benefit and success of an ontologybased personal document management system. ...
Annett Mitschick, Ralf Nagel 0002, Klaus Meiß...
Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...
The goal of a mediator system is to provide users a uniform interface to the multitude of information sources. To translate user queries, given in a mediated schema, to queries on...
The goal of the InfoSleuth project at MCC is to exploit and synthesize new technologies into a uni ed system that retrieves and processes information in an ever-changing network o...
Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., William Bohrer, Richard S....
To simplify the task of obtaining information from the vast number of information sources that are available on the World Wide Web (WWW), we are building tools to build informatio...
Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...