The emerging service grids bring together various distributed application-level services to a `market' for clients to request and enable the integration of services across di...
Hai Jin, Hanhua Chen, Jian Chen, Ping Kuang, Li Qi...
A common problem of ontologies is that their taxonomic structure is often poor and confusing. This is typically exemplified by the unrestrained use of subsumption to accomplish a v...
The authors have proposed using category-theoretic sketches to enhance database design and integration methodologies. The algebraic context is called the Sketch Data Model (SkDM) a...
Abstract: Web services are increasingly used to integrate heterogeneous and autonomous applications in cross-organizational cooperations. A key problem is to support a high executi...
Constraint satisfaction technology emerged from AI research. Its practical success is based on integration of sophisticated search with consistency techniques reducing the search ...