Several federated database systems have been built in the past using the relational or the object model as federating model. This paper gives an overview of the XMLMedia system, a ...
Security-typed languages (STLs) are powerful tools for provably implementing policy in applications. The programmer maps policy onto programs by annotating types with information ...
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
The Semantic Web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. To this point, researchers have defined new l...
Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Peter Mork, Igor ...
Abstract. We study the exchange of information in collective information systems mediated by information agents, focusing specifically on the problem of semantic interoperability. ...