: Two major problems in constructing data federations (for example, data warehouses and database federations) concern achieving and maintaining consistency and a uniform representa...
Scientists are increasingly utilizing Grids to manage large data sets and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Scientific workflows are used as means for modeli...
In recent years, existing computing schemes and paradigms have evolved towards more flexible, ad-hoc scalable frameworks. Nowadays, exchanging interactions between entities often ...
Abstract The W3C has developed XPath [3] as a query language for XML data. XPath is embedded in many other languages like XQuery and XSLT. The name of XPath derives from its basic ...
Matthias Droop, Markus Flarer, Jinghua Groppe, Sve...
Environmental engineers from different organizations work in interdisciplinary projects having the need of information exchange. In particular, a collaborative environment with pe...
Development of ontology development tools and ontology-enhanced software applications requires thorough understanding of ontology languages in order to implement them according to ...