This paper describes SKIMA, a mediation system that gives transparent access to heterogeneous and distributed sources considering their semantics and the semantics of application ...
The paper presents a general model for persistent replicated object management and identifies what meta information about objects needs to be maintained by a naming and binding se...
Mark C. Little, Daniel L. McCue, Santosh K. Shriva...
Dynamic behavior is inherent in virtual organizations. Semantics has to be processed to manage dynamism and other properties like state, life cycle, faults, and others. In our pap...
For more than a decade, ontologies have been proposed as a means to enable sharing and reuse of knowledge. While originally relatively narrow information landscapes have been in mi...
With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather th...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Manfred H...