Sample Queries
- Mediation
- “Find all hotels (meeting certain constraints) in San Francisco”
- Use of domain knowledge
- “Find hotels halfway between S. F. and Portland”
- User modeling
- “Apply my preferences” (to the same query)
- Legacy and Web data source integration
- “Show just the hotels for which we get a corporate discount” (Accesses WWW sources and employee db)
- “Find the names and extensions of employees in the AI Center who have written about …” (Accesses Harvest index, Bibtex file and employee db)
- “Persistent” queries
- “Notify me of any ad selling a used color inkjet printer”