: A service contract typically specifies the service level, i.e., the quality parameters of the service to be performed. In addition to this static part, there is also the need to ...
Multilevel transactions have been proposed for multilevel secure databases; in contrast to most proposals, such transactions allow users to read and write across multiple security...
Automatic image annotation is a promising solution to enable semantic image retrieval via keywords. In this paper, we propose a multi-level approach to annotate the semantics of n...
The success of schema integration in multidatabase systems relies heavily on the determination of complete and refined correspondence relationships between them. So, the candidate...
Self-management is one of the challenges for realizing Ambient Intelligence in pervasive computing. In this paper, we propose and present a semantic web based selfmanagement appro...