This paper gives an account of how traditional metadata application profiles are related to Web ontologies and Description Logics. It is shown that metadata profiles can be formal...
Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Georgia D. Solomou
Graph grammars combine the relational aspect of graphs with the iterative and recursive aspects of string grammars, and thus represent an important next step in our ability to dis...
Jacek P. Kukluk, Lawrence B. Holder, Diane J. Cook
The focus of this paper is on interoperability issues to achieve data integration in distributed databases for geographic applications. Our concrete application is in the context ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, ...
In this paper we will concentrate on the conceptual modeling and semantics of service delegation and alignment in information systems. In delegation, one typically has the situatio...
Herman Balsters, G. B. Huitema, Nicolae B. Szirbik
Legacy system data models can interoperate only if their syntactic and semantic differences are resolved. To address this problem, we developed the Intelligent Mapping Toolkit (IM...
Kalyan Moy Gupta, Michael Zang, Adam Gray, David W...