Most modern database applications contain a significant amount of time dependent data and a substantial proportion of this data is now-relative, i.e. current now. While much resea...
A considerable amount of effort in the DIS community has been devoted to developing efficient, scaleable, mechanisms for distributing state updates and interaction information in ...
: Each information system (or data table) leads to a hierarchy of binary relations on the object set in a natural way; these relational systems can serve as frames for the semantic...
The demand for data integration is rapidly becoming larger as more and more information sources appear in modern enterprises. In many situations a logical (rather than physical) i...
We propose a language that allows agents to distribute data with usage policies in a decentralized architecture. In our framework, the compliance with usage policies is not enforce...
Ricardo Corin, Sandro Etalle, J. I. den Hartog, Ga...