Service composition is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullet for the envisioned Semantic Web. It purports to take the Web to unexplored efficiencies and provide a flexibl...
Brahim Medjahed, Athman Bouguettaya, Ahmed K. Elma...
Business-to-Business (B2B) technologies pre-date the Web. They have existed for at least as long as the Internet. B2B applications were among the first to take advantage of advance...
Abstract. In traditional software systems, significant attention is devoted to keeping modules well separated and coherent with respect to functionality, thus ensuring that changes...
Alexander Maedche, Boris Motik, Ljiljana Stojanovi...
The Decomposition Storage Model (DSM) vertically partitions all attributes of a given relation. DSM has excellent I/O behavior when the number of attributes touched in the query i...
The efficient retrieval of data items on set-valued attributes is an important research topic that has attracted little attention so far. We studied and modified four index structu...
Recent work on querying data streams has focused on systems where newly arriving data is processed and continuously streamed to the user in real time. In many emerging applications...
Due to their expressive power, Regular Expressions (REs) are quickly becoming an integral part of language specifications for several important application scenarios. Many of thes...
Chee Yong Chan, Minos N. Garofalakis, Rajeev Rasto...
Abstract. The requirements for effective search and management of the WWW are stronger than ever. Currently Web documents are classified based on their content not taking into acco...
Maria Halkidi, Benjamin Nguyen, Iraklis Varlamis, ...
On the Semantic Web, data will inevitably come from many different ontologies, and information processing across ontologies is not possible without knowing the semantic mappings be...
AnHai Doan, Jayant Madhavan, Robin Dhamankar, Pedr...
In data applications such as information integration, there can be limited access patterns to relations, i.e., binding patterns require values to be specified for certain attribut...