Much has been written of the facilities for ontology building and reasoning offered for ontologies expressed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Less has been written about how th...
At the heart of today’s information-explosion problems are issues involving semantics, mutual understanding, concept matching, and interoperability. Ontologies and the Semantic ...
Yuri A. Tijerino, David W. Embley, Deryle W. Lonsd...
Abstract. Semistructured data has no absolute schema xed in advance and its structure may be irregular or incomplete. Such data commonly arises in sources that do not impose a rigi...
Functional descriptions are a central pillar of Semantic Web services. Disregarding details on how to invoke and consume the service, they shall provide a black box description for...
Secure group communication protocols have been designed to meet needs such as secure management of group membership, confidential group communication, and access control. New lan...