In view of the importance of the meat imports and the exports of meat in Iran, this study focuses on the status of the global market of meat imports the unit price test in these markets between the years 1961 and 2011 using the market cointegration approach. The results of this study are indicative of prices co-integration in the international market of meat as well as among such major importer...

An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. A new application area emerge for information retrieval and integration. There may be hundreds or thousands of web databases providing data of relevance to a particular domain on the web. So a primary challenge to internet-scale hidden web database integration is to determine in whic...

This paper examines the impact of various trade policies for small developing states in the face of a changing world, including globalization, proliferation of regional integration agreements (RIAs), the changing relationship between ACP countries and the EU (the Cotonou Agreement), the erosion of ACP preferences in the EU market, the EBA, and the FTAA negotiations. The paper concludes that: i)...

We propose a method of transformation and integration of HTML tables into a common XML list structure. HTML tables tend to have diversified structures, and such integration will help us browse and compare all related information in separate HTML pages simultaneously. This paper focuses on tasks of information extraction from tables and data categorization. For this purpose, we applied three alg...

The Web has been rapidly “deepened” by myriad searchable databases online. To enable effective access to the “deep Web,” we are building the MetaQuerier– for exploring and integrating databases on the Web. Such metaquerying must tackle integration at a large scale (as sources are proliferating online) and of a dynamic nature (as each query will access different sources). Toward such integration...

In this paper, we report our initial investigations on the problems of automatically extracting data objects from a given hidden-web source (i.e., the web site with an HTML search form) and automatically assigning semantics to the extracted data. We also propose some future work to address the problem of information discovery and integration for hidden-web sources.