Longevity of distributed computing middleware standards, such as CORBA, depend on their ability to support a range of applications by providing low overhead access in a uniform man...
Gautam H. Thaker, Patrick J. Lardieri, Chuck Winte...
Abstract. Flora-2 is a rule-based object-oriented knowledge base system designed for a variety of automated tasks on the Semantic Web, ranging from meta-data management to informat...
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture standardizes a platform- and programming-language-independent distributed object computing environment. It also provides a standard fo...
With the recent advances in communications technologies and decentralization of work practices, there has been an increase in distributed, remote, computerized work environments. I...
Abstract. Asynchronous communications are prominent in distributed and mobile systems. Often consystems consider an abstract point of view with synchronous communications. However ...
We consider the problem of query evaluation in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems that support semantic-based retrieval services. We confine ourselves to the case where the peers employ t...
Abstract. In [11], we proposed an algebra with four algebraic operators, whose composition can be used to generate valid compound terms in a given faceted taxonomy in an efficient ...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Anastasia Analyti, Nicolas Spyra...
Ontologies in current computer science parlance are computer based resources that represent agreed domain semantics. This paper first introduces ontologies in general and subseque...
Marie-Laure Reinberger, Peter Spyns, Walter Daelem...
Awareness has now become a widely accepted central feature in groupware systems. In this context, providing an awareness support consists in delivering to users involved in a colla...