The emergence of the design patterns movement has gone a long way toward codifying a concise terminology for conveying sophisticated computer-science thinking. A design pattern is a reusable implementation model or ...

The importance of the information for the decision making in the organizations, the increase data quantity and the time to search for information, they have been demanding concern with the speed access to the databases. ...

This article presents XSimilarity, a tool for executing similarity queries embedded in XQuery language. Relevant similarity functions for database and information retrieval fields are implemented in the tool. The main ...