The development of the Internet in recent years has made it possible and useful to access
many different information systems anywhere in the world to obtain information. While there …

Genomic medicine aims to revolutionize health care by applying our growing understanding
of the molecular basis of disease. Research in this arena is data intensive, which means …

The popularity of the World-Wide Web (WWW) has made it a prime vehicle for disseminating
information. The relevance of database concepts to the problems of managing and querying …

Intuitively, data management and data integration tools are well-suited for exchanging
information in a semantically meaningful way. Unfortunately, they suffer from two significant …

Web pages-especially dynamically generated ones-contain several items that cannot be
classified as the" primary content," eg, navigation sidebars, advertisements, copyright …

Fusionplex is a system for integrating multiple heterogeneous and autonomous information
sources that uses data fusion to resolve factual inconsistencies among the individual …

Modern scientific research is increasingly conducted by virtual communities of scientists
distributed around the world. The data volumes created by these communities are extremely …

The astonishing growth of the Internet is the first sign that every aspect of our economy and
society are likely to change. Yet for people to realize the vast promise of networked …

The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems,
including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and …

The design of webbases, database systems for supporting Web-based applications, is
currently an active area of research. In this paper, we propose a 3-year architecture for …