This paper is motivated by the problem of poor searching efficiency in decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. We solve the searching problem by considering and modeling t...
Xuezheng Liu, Guangwen Yang, Jinfeng Hu, Ming Chen...
The success of the World Wide Web is boosting the development of multimedia database systems and their integration into the internet. For the documents stored and exchanged in the...
The Semantic Web initiative defines important challenges for knowledge representation and database systems. Recently, several standards for representation languages have been pro...
With the growing use of distributed information networks, there is an increasing need for algorithmic and system solutions for data-driven knowledge acquisition using distributed,...
Doina Caragea, Jaime Reinoso, Adrian Silvescu, Vas...
Abstract. This paper addresses several issues related to the use of conceptual modeling to support serviceoriented, advanced information systems. It shows how conceptual modeling o...