: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...
Soon, much of the data exchanged over the Internet will be encoded in XML, allowing for sophisticated filtering and content-based routing. We have built a filtering engine called ...
Yanlei Diao, Peter M. Fischer, Michael J. Franklin...
In peer-to-peer (P2P) systems where individual peers must cooperate to process each other's requests, a useful metric for evaluating the system is how many remote requests ar...
: The challenge of the semantic web is the provision of distributed information with well defined meaning, understandable for different parties. Particularly, applications should b...
This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...