Abstract. We study large-scale distributed cooperative systems that use optimistic replication. We represent a system as a graph of actions (operations) connected by edges that rei...
Service Oriented Architectures are increasingly being used to achieve interoperability among heterogeneous systems. SOAs help developers to integrate different architectures in ord...
We present methods for improving text search retrieval of visual multimedia content by applying a set of visual models of semantic concepts from a lexicon of concepts deemed relev...
Alexander Haubold, Apostol Natsev, Milind R. Napha...
The standardization of the second generation Web Ontology Language, OWL, leaves a crucial issue for Web-based ontologies unsatisfactorily resolved: how to represent and reason with...
Abstract— Business processes involve interactions among autonomous partners. We propose that these interactions be specified modularly as protocols. Protocols can be published, ...