Empirical equations are an important class of regularities that can be discovered in databases. In this paper we concentrate on the role of equations as de nitions of attribute val...
We show how quantified constraints expressed in a sub-language of first-order logic, againstashareddatamodelthatisfreetoevolve, provideanexcellentwayof transporting domain-specific...
Kit-ying Hui, Peter M. D. Gray, Graham J. L. Kemp,...
An important objective of the Semantic Web is to make Electronic Commerce interactions more flexible and automated. To achieve this, standardization of ontologies, message content...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributing, computing, and electronic business, while there is an increasing surge to provide online Businessto-Business col...