A peer-to-peer complementary currency can be a powerful tool for promoting exchanges that make use of underutilized computing resources in a trusted way. i-WAT[11] is a proposed s...
One of the most elaborate and important tasks in biology is the functional annotation of genes. Biologists have developed standardized and structured vocabularies, called bio-onto...
In this paper we present a novel, ontology-based approach to service discovery, which exploits domain knowledge and semantic service descriptions to guide the service discovery pr...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
Wide-area replication improves the availability and performance of globally distributed data repositories. Protocols needed for maintaining replication consistency may cause an un...
Ontologies provide a means of modelling and representing a knowledge domain. Such representation, already used in purpose-built distributed information systems, can also be of gre...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...