The importance of maintaining provenance has been widely recognized, particularly with respect to highly-manipulated data. However, there are few deployed databases that provide p...
Cross-domain information exchange is a growing problem, as business and governmental organizations increasingly need to integrate their information systems with those of partially...
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...
NASA is, with the rest of industry, turning to product-line engineering to reduce costs and improve quality by effectively managing reuse. Experience in industry has shown that it...