Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...
Abstract. We present a method for mapping security levels among the components of a distributed system where data in the local sources are represented in XML. Distributed data is i...
As the Semantic Web (SW) is being automatically populated with large number of RDF triples scalability issues related to wide scale reasoning occur. We believe these difficulties ...