Based on the limitations raised by existing approaches in the context of the Semantic Web, we propose a formalism, Web Sources Global Ontology (WebSOGO), a data meta-model for the...
Parent-centric real-parameter crossover operators create the offspring in the neighbourhood of one of the parents, the female parent. The other parent, the male one, defines the r...
This paper explores an approach to global, stochastic, simulation optimization which combines stochastic approximation (SA) with simulated annealing (SAN). SA directs a search of ...
Many data-management applications require integrating data from a variety of sources, where different sources may refer to the same real-world entity in different ways and some ma...
In recent years, research about distributing databases over networks has become increasingly important. Here we concentrate on the issues of interoperability of heterogeneous DBMS...
Stefan Grufman, Fredrik Samson, Suzanne M. Embury,...