Data integration approaches mostly attempt to resolve semantic uncertainty and conflicts between data sources during the data integration process. In some application areas, this...
In the multi-agent scenario, interaction among agents is an issue that must be faced in an appropriate way. Modeling interactions by roles can simplify the development of the inter...
Systems for managing and querying semistructured-data sources often store data in proprietary object repositories or in a tagged-text format. We describe a technique that can use ...
This paper introduces the MREF framework for representing and correlating information at a higher semantic level than is possible with Web-based information systems today. The rol...
Abstract. Interest is rising in genuinely distributed ('peer-to-peer') resource discovery systems, which all provide mechanisms for self-organization of their resource pr...
Koen Vanthournout, Geert Deconinck, Ronnie Belmans