—Traditional hierarchical namespaces are not sufficient for representing and managing the rich semantics of today’s storage systems. In this paper, we discuss the principles o...
Zhichen Xu, Magnus Karlsson, Chunqiang Tang, Chris...
Moving objects are currently represented in databases by means of an explicit representation of their trajectory. However from a physical point of view, or more specifically accor...
tween documents. They should allow for an abstract representation of data which resembles the way they are actually perceived and used in the real world, thus shortening (with resp...
Domain experts are essential for successful software development, but these experts may not recognize their ideas when abstracted into Unified Modeling Language (UML) or ontologie...
With generic functional programming techniques, we have eased GUI programming by constructing a programming toolkit with which one can create GUIs in an abstract and compositional ...
Peter Achten, Marko C. J. D. van Eekelen, Rinus Pl...
Triple20 is a ontology manipulation and visualization tool for languages built on top of the Semantic-Web RDF triple model. In this article we explain how a triple-centered design ...
A common practice in conceptual modeling is to separate the conceptual from the data model. Although very intuitive, this approach is inadequate for many complex domains, in which...
The usefulness of the results produced by data mining methods can be critically impaired by several factors such as (1) low quality of data, including errors due to contamination, ...
Fang Chu, Yizhou Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Douglas Stot...
We propose to enhance a schema integration process with a validation phase employing logic-based data models. In our methodology, we validate the source schemas against the data mo...
Tuning parallel code can be a time-consuming and difficult task. We present our approach to automate the performance analysis of OpenMP applications that is based on the notion of ...