Ontologies represent a method of formally expressing a shared understanding of information, and have been seen by many authors as a prerequisite for the "Semantic web". ...
We introduce a deductive system Bal which models the logic of balance of opposing forces or of balance between conflicting evidence or influences. "Truth values" are int...
This paper reports on the results of an independent evaluation of the techniques presented in the VLDB 2007 paper "Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partit...
Lefteris Sidirourgos, Romulo Goncalves, Martin L. ...
Abstract. A Wide-Area Sensor Network (WASN) is a collection of heterogeneous sensor networks and data repositories spread over a wide geographic area. The diversity of sensor types...
In order to effectively validate the performance of software systems throughout their development cycle it is necessary to continuously build performance models from software mod...