: The integration of heterogenous web sources is still a big challenge. One approach to deal with integration problems is the usage of domain knowledge in form of vocabularies or o...
A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...
An essential element in defining the semantic of Web services is the domain knowledge. Medical informatics is one of the few domains to have considerable domain knowledge exposed ...
We present a semantic caching approach for optimizing the performance of information mediators. A critical problem with information mediators, particularly those gathering and int...
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...