Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
An increasing percentage of the data needed by business applications is being generated in XML format. Storing the XML in its native format will facilitate new applications that e...
Alan Halverson, Vanja Josifovski, Guy M. Lohman, H...
This paper addresses a major weakness of current technologies for the Semantic Web, namely the lack of a principled means to represent and reason about uncertainty. This not only h...
Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, Kathryn B. Laskey, Kennet...
Within the Geospatial Semantic Web, selecting a different ontology for a spatial data set will enable that data’s analysis in a different context. Analyses of multiple data sets,...
Software applications that work with biomedical data have significant knowledge-management requirements. Formal knowledge models and knowledge-based methods can be very useful in m...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, Samson W. Tu, Cs...