Reliability is a well-known concern in the field of personalization technologies. We propose the extension of an ontology-based retrieval system with semantic-based personalization...
Abstract. Web services have become the predominant paradigm for the development of distributed software systems. Web services provide the means to modularize software in a way that...
Abstract. Caching can highly improve performance of query processing in distributed databases. In this paper we show how this technique can be used in grid architecture where data ...
Piotr Cybula, Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stence...
In this paper we will concentrate on the conceptual modeling and semantics of service delegation and alignment in information systems. In delegation, one typically has the situatio...
Herman Balsters, G. B. Huitema, Nicolae B. Szirbik
Abstract. To remain competitive, enterprises have to mesh their business processes with their customers, suppliers and business partners. Increasing collaboration includes not only...
Applications that use CORBA as communication layer often have some restrictions for multi-domain deployment. This is particularly true when they have to face firewall/NAT traversa...
Antonio Theophilo Costa, Markus Endler, Renato Cer...
In our current connected wireless world, mobile devices are enabled to use various networking facilities. Although this enables mobile users to communicate any time and any place, ...
Abstract. Translating XML data into ontologies is the problem of finding an instance of an ontology, given an XML document and a specification of the relationship between the XML...
There are many problems requiring a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of mapping formulas between the schema and a formal conceptual mode...