Shadowing effects dramatically enhance the realism of virtual environments by providing useful visual cues. Shadow mapping is an efficient algorithm for real-time shadow renderin...
Interoperability in service oriented environments is heavily inuenced by the view that the cooperating services have on their data. e term service for the abstract contract concl...
Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...
Abstract. Understanding a large schema without the assistance of persons already familiar with it (and its associated applications), is a hard and very time consuming task that occ...
Managing semantic heterogeneity is a complex task. One solution involves matching like terms to each other. We view Match as an operator that takes two graph-like structures (e.g....
Pavel Shvaiko, Fausto Giunchiglia, Paulo Pinheiro ...