While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of hetero...
Background: The most renowned biological ontology, Gene Ontology (GO) is widely used for annotations of genes and gene products of different organisms. However, there are shortcom...
Abstract The most common matching applications, e.g., ontology matching, focus on the computation of the correspondences holding between the nodes of graph structures (e.g., concep...
There are emerging technologies such as SAWSDL or WSMO that extend the current Web Services technologies to so called Semantic Web Services by combining the structural and semanti...
GridVine is a Peer Data Management System based on a decentralized access structure. Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer – where dat...