When joining information provider peers to a peer-to-peer network, an arbitrary distribution is sub-optimal. In fact, clustering peers by their characteristics, enhances search and...
Markup languages, representations, schemas, and tools have significantly increased the ability for organizations to share their information. Languages such as the Extensible Marku...
Several application contexts require the ability to use together and compare different geographic datasets (maps) concerning the same or overlapping areas. This is for example the...
Alberto Belussi, Barbara Catania, Paola Podest&agr...
Extracting and integrating object information from the Web is of great significance for Web data management. The existing Web information extraction techniques cannot provide sati...
The agent-based approach is an effective one for building middleware interconnecting distributed heterogeneous resources and providing semantic interoperability among them. On the...