One of the major early problems that biometrics faced was the lack of interoperability between different software applications and devices developed by different vendors. The Bio...
To achieve the dream of the semantic web, it must be possible for ordinary users to invoke services. Exactly how to turn this dream into reality is a challenging opportunity and a...
Muhammed Al-Muhammed, David W. Embley, Stephen W. ...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
Pervasive computing is an emerging computing paradigm, which is expected to be part of our everyday life in the foreseeable future. The coordination among heterogeneous devices, s...
—The vision of the Semantic Web has brought about new challenges at the intersection of web research and data management. One fundamental research issue at this intersection is t...