One of the challenges raised by the construction of the semantic Web lies in the analysis and management of complex relationships (thematic, spatial and temporal) connecting severa...
— Most biomedical research databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data. However, temporal knowledge about the contextual meaning of such data is not usually repr...
As the Extensible Markup Language (XML) rapidly establishes itself as the de facto standard for presenting, storing, and exchanging data on the Internet, large volume of XML data ...
Current models for cardinal directions, such as north and northeast, are either point-based or region-based, but no models exist that apply equally, independent of the geometric d...
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...