Findings from a data mapping and extraction exercise undertaken as part of the STAR project are described and related to recent work in the area. The exercise was undertaken in con...
We present a semantic caching approach for optimizing the performance of information mediators. A critical problem with information mediators, particularly those gathering and int...
Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing di erent levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with di erent and limitedcapa...
Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura M. Ha...
The Web contains a large amount of documents and increasingly, also semantic data in the form of RDF triples. Many of these triples are annotations that are associated with docume...
Component Based Development (CBD) aims at constructing software through the integration, using interfaces and contracts, between pre-existing components. The main goal of this wor...
Robson P. de Souza, Marcelo N. Costa, Regina M. M....