Flexible and dynamic environments are characterized by high independence from connection participants, low control over available services and high tolerance to communication fail...
At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
In data integration systems there is a problem of answering queries through a target schema, given a set of mappings between source schemas and the target schema, and given that th...
This report is an expanded version of a paper in AAAI-2006 proceedings. In this report, we investigate the challenges that must be addressed for the Semantic Web to become a feasi...
Background: Web Services and Workflow Management Systems can support creation and deployment of network systems, able to automate data analysis and retrieval processes in biomedic...