This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
With the recent and continuing advances in areas such as wireless communications and positioning technologies, mobile, locationbased services are becoming possible. Such services ...
Christian S. Jensen, Augustas Kligys, Torben Bach ...
We study in this paper provenance information for queries with aggregation. Provenance information was studied in the context of various query languages that do not allow for aggr...
Probabilistic decision graphs (PDGs) are a representation language for probability distributions based on binary decision diagrams. PDGs can encode (context-specific) independence...
Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...