Semantic web services achieve effects in the world through web services, so the connection to those services--the grounding--is of paramount importance. The established technique i...
Most database applications are designed according the ANSI/SPARC architecture. When it is used, a large amount of semantics of data may be lost during the transformation from the ...
Since XML becomes a crucial format for representing information, it is necessary to establish techniques for managing XML documents. A possible solution can be found in storing XM...
Many semantic portals use faceted browsing, where the facets are based on the underlying indexing ontologies of the content. However, in many cases, like in medical applications, t...
A schema mapping produces a semantic correspondence between two schemas. Automating schema mapping is challenging. The existence of 1:n (or n:1) and n:m mapping cardinalities make...