We believe that successful co-operation between multi-agent systems providing services in a specific domain can be realized by constructing an infrastructure that supports the sem...
In this paper we propose a solution to secure interoperability between electronic ID management infrastructures enabling the provision of cross-border eServices to mobile citizens....
Franco Arcieri, Andrea Dimitri, Fabio Fioravanti, ...
Motivated by the need for more flexible OLAP systems, this paper presents work on logical integration of external data in OLAP databases, carried out in cooperation between the D...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Data access and software exchange are often achieved over insecure networks such as the public Internet. System designers are therefore forced to be proactive with regard to verif...