In this paper we describe a rule-based approach to semantic specification that can be used to establish semantic agreement between a source and receiver. Query processing techniqu...
Traditional databases have focused on the issue of reducing I/O cost as it is the bottleneck in many operations. As databases become increasingly accepted in areas such as Geograp...
Nagender Bandi, Chengyu Sun, Amr El Abbadi, Divyak...
An important reality when integrating scientific data is the fact that data may often be "missing", partially specified, or conflicting. Therefore, in this paper, we pre...
Recently, skyline queries have attracted much attention in the database research community. Space partitioning techniques, such as recursive division of the data space, have been ...
Business Processes for Web Services are the new paradigm for the lightweight integration of business from different enterprises. Whereas the security and access control policies ...