Correct transformations and integrations of schemata within the process of federated database design have to encompass existing local integrity constraints. Most of the proposed me...
An ontology is a formal representation of a domain modeling the entities in the domain and their relations. When a domain is represented by multiple ontologies, there is need for ...
Ontologies have been extensively used to model domain-specific knowledge. Recent research has applied ontologies to enhance the discovery and retrieval of geographic data in Spatia...
Abstract. We address what is still a scarcity of general mathematical foundations for ontology-based semantic integration underlying current knowledge engineering methodologies in ...
Management of various complex resources is an important issue to be well done, in order to fulfill the potential of Grid. In this paper, we propose a formal data model and algebra ...