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 ...
Provenance is an increasing concern due to the revolution in sharing and processing scientific data on the Web and in other computer systems. It is proposed that many computer sys...
Umut A. Acar, Amal Ahmed, James Cheney, Roly Perer...
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...
In this paper we deal with problems occurring in evolving interrelated Web databanks. Examples of such databanks are networks of interlinked scientific repositories on the Web, man...