In the study of data exchange one usually assumes an openworld semantics, making it possible to extend instances of target schemas. An alternative closed-world semantics only move...
Interest Management in large-scale distributed applications aims to reduce the amount of extraneous broadcast communication between nodes in the system with the aim of increasing ...
In this paper we suggest the requirements for an open platform designed for the description, distribution and analysis of genetic polymorphism data. This platform is discussed in ...
Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access as they are toward computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-...
Michael L. Scott, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
The central idea in reference modeling is the reutilization of the business knowledge contained in reference models for the construction of specific information models. The orient...