While classic information retrieval methods return whole documents as a result of a query, many information demands would be better satisfied by fine-grain access inside the docu...
—Grid computing offers significant enhancements to our capabilities for computation, information processing and collaboration, and has exciting ambitions in many fields of endeav...
When information services are organized to provide some composed functionality, their interactions can be formally represented as workflows. Traditionally, workflows are executed...
Recent advances in e-learning techonologies and web services make realistic the idea that courseware for personalized e-learning can be built by dynamic composition of distributed ...
Simona Colucci, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciasc...
RDF uses the RFC3066 standard for language tags for literals in natural languages. The revision RFC3066bis includes productive use of language, country and script codes. These form...
There is an ongoing discussion whether reasoning in the Semantic Web should be monotonic or not. It seems however that the problem concerns not only the reasoning over knowledge bu...
Although OWL is rather expressive, it has a very serious limitation on datatypes; i.e., it does not support customised datatypes. It has been pointed out that many potential users...