: A fully operational large scale digital library is likely to be based on a distributed architecture and because of this it is likely that a number of independent search engines m...
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
—In industries such as healthcare, there is a need to electronically share privacy-sensitive data across distinct organizations. We show how this can be done while allowing organ...
We examine a knowledge representation architecture to support context interchange mediation. For autonomous receivers and sources sharing a common subject domain, the mediator’s...
In distributed computing systems, it is unwise to move data to the point of program code, but instead process data at the point of storage. This concept is even more appropriate t...