Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...
In this paper, we present GLARE, a domain-independent system for acquiring, representing and executing clinical guidelines. GLARE is characterized by the adoption of Artificial Int...
Paolo Terenziani, Stefania Montani, Alessio Bottri...
Semantic caching augments cached data with a semantic description of the data. These semantic descriptions can be used to improve execution time for similar queries by retrieving ...
Norvald H. Ryeng, Jon Olav Hauglid, Kjetil N&oslas...
Quality of Service (QoS) management becomes more and more important, especially in networks where many applications are competing for a limited number of resources. As these appli...
Stefan Fischer, Abdelhakim Hafid, Gregor von Bochm...
Web/Gridservices'metadataandsemanticsarebecomingincreasingimportantforservicesharing and effective reuse. In this paper we present a generic framework for engineering and man...
Liming Chen, Nigel R. Shadbolt, Carole A. Goble, F...