Today, there are several approaches supporting an integrated processing of XML and (object-)relational data sources. However, each of these approaches favors a single data model f...
: For the integration of data that resides in autonomous data sources Software AG uses ontologies. Data source ontologies describe the data sources themselves. Business ontologies ...
Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...
Background: Biological data have traditionally been stored and made publicly available through a variety of on-line databases, whereas biological knowledge has traditionally been ...
Andreas Prlic, Marco A. Martinez, Dimitris Dimitro...
Data Grids provide transparent access to heterogeneous and autonomous data resources. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of a data sharing system that (i) is ...