The present work covers a comparison of the text retrieval qualities of open source relational databases and Lucene, which is a full text search engine library, over English docume...
The HL7 standard is widely used to exchange medical information electronically. As a part of the standard, HL7 defines scalar communication data types like physical quantity, poin...
—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...
An increasing number of applications use XML data published from relational databases. For speed and convenience, such applications routinely cache this XML data locally and acces...
Philip Bohannon, Sumit Ganguly, Henry F. Korth, P....
This article explains challenges that arise when humanitarian organizations want to coordinate their development activities by means of distributed information systems. It focuses...
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is being used as the de-facto standard in the software industry. With the adoption of UML 2.0, the new enhancements allow this version to desc...
Abstract. The study of databases began with the design of efficient storage and data sharing techniques for large amount of data. This paper concerns the processing of imprecision ...
Background: This article addresses the problem of interoperation of heterogeneous bioinformatics databases. Results: We introduce BioWarehouse, an open source toolkit for construc...
Thomas J. Lee, Yannick Pouliot, Valerie Wagner, Pr...