The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...
Many applications operate on time-sensitive data. Some of these data are only valid for certain intervals (e.g., job-assignments, versions of software code), others describe tempor...
In the near future, there will be increasingly powerful computers in smart cards, telephones, and other information appliances. This will create a massive infrastructure composed ...