Bulletin of the Technical Committee on
Data Engineering
March 2002
... Vol. 25 No. 1 ………………………………………………
IEEE Computer Society
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ...............................................................................................................David Lomet ___1
Letter from the new TC Chair .............................................................................................................Erich J. Neuhold__2 Letter from the Special Issue Editor .................................................................................................Gerhard Weikum___3
SEAL- Tying Up Information Integration and Web Site Management by Ontologies ...................................................... ................................................................Alexander Maedche, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer, York Sure, Raphael Volz__10
Architecture and Implementation of an XQuery-based Information Integration Platform ................................................ ................................................................................................................Yannis Papakonstantinou, Vasilis Vassalos__18
Computing Web Page Importance without Storing the Graph of the Web ...................................................................... ........................................................................................................Serge Abiteboul, Mihai Preda, Gregory Cobena__27
Analyzing Fine-grained Hypertext Features for Enhanced Crawling and Topic Distillation ............................................ ............................................................................Soumen Chakrabarti, Ravindra Jaju, Mukul Joshi, Kunal Punera__34
Query- vs. Crawling-based Classification of Searchable Web Databases ...................................................................... .................................................................................................Luis Gravano, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Mehran Sahami__43
Classification and Intelligent Search on Information in XML ..................................Norbert Fuhr, Gerhard Weikum__51
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