Information gathering in the World Wide Web: The W3QL query language and the W3QS system

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 369-410

  Konopnicki, David ^a   Shmueli, Oded ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; HTML; HTTP; INFORMATION SERVICES; QUERY LANGUAGES;

DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0032256889     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/296854.277639     Document Type: Article

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