Auto-ID technologies allow capturing the time and location of products in the supply chain for tracking and tracing. This paves the way for a variety of business applications, suc...
For speed and convenience, applications routinely cache XML data locally, and access it through standard parser (SAX) or tree (DOM) interfaces. When the source of this data is a r...
For decades, researchers in knowledge representation (KR) have argued for and against various choices in KR formalisms, such as Rules, Frames, Semantic nets, and Formal logic. In ...
In this paper, we describe a framework for an object-oriented modeling of meta information and its use for the integration of heterogeneous databases with the goal of their intero...
Daniel A. Keim, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Andreas Mieths...
Ontology, an explicit specification of shared conceptualization, has been increasingly used to define formal data semantics and improve data reusability and interoperability in en...