With new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated Semantic Web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is about to appear. Traditional semantic r...
Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe Cudré...
Abstract. Recently, the database and AI research communities have paid increased attention to ontologies. The main motivating reason is that ontologies promise solutions for comple...
The notion of time granularity comes into play in a variety of problems involving time representation and management in database applications, including temporal database design, t...
The authors have developed a new approach to database interoperability using the sketch data model. That technique has now been used in a number of applications, but an important ...
A system has been developed permitting database queries over data extracted from a CAD system where the query result is returned back to the CAD for visualization and analysis. Th...