Ontologies and reasoning are the key terms brought into focus by the semantic web community. Formal representation of ontologies in a common data model on the web can be taken as a...
In this paper we introduce Web Objects in XML (WOX) as a web protocol for distributed objects, which uses HTTP as its transport protocol and XML as its format representation. It al...
This paper reports our first set of results on managing uncertainty in data integration. We posit that data-integration systems need to handle uncertainty at three levels, and do...
— Most biomedical research databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data. However, temporal knowledge about the contextual meaning of such data is not usually repr...
Abstract— With the increasing popularity of parallel programming environments such as PC clusters, more and more sequential programmers, with little knowledge about parallel arch...